SAVED FATHER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 13

SAVED FATHER.

BOY'S SACRIFICE.

AERIAL ON SERVICE WIRES. ELECTROCUTION AT WELCOME BAY. (F>y Telegraph.—rress Association.) TAURANGA, this day. How a son lost his life in extricating his father from contact with electric current when a wireless aerial he was erecting fell across the service wires is told to-day in a more detailed account of the electrocution at Welcome Bay yesterday of Alex Rimmer, aged 19. Mr. W. <T. Rimmer and bis son were engaged in erecting a wireless aerial at their, home, situated 011 a farm at Welcome Bay, which is about five miles from Tauranga 011 the road to Te Puke. Both were standing 011 the ground, which was damp after heavy rain, and they were apparently working the aerial into position when the wire became detached and fell across the service wires leading into the bouse. Mr. Rimmer sen., grasped the aerial to disentangle it, and immediately was translixed by a severe shock.

Noticing bis father's predicament, Alex Rimmer clutched at the wire. Apparently he succeeded in wrenching it from his father's grasp, but lie received a shock which proved fatal.

Sirs. Rimmer immediately telephoned for the police and a- doctor, but when Dr. J. Mark arrived by car from the Tauranga Hospital, the youth was dead. Air. Rimmer, sen., although he received no burns, suffered severely from the result of the shock he had received, and was unable to give a complete account of tho tragedy.

An inquest is to be held.