LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED.
(From Our Correspondent.) HAMILTON, Thursday, A iinesnmn employed by the .Public Works Department was electrocuted at Ruakura this afternoon. The victim W Mr. John Turner, aged 33, l«arried, of ■■ Pirongia. Mr. Turner, who was a Maori was issistin" i" alterations to the .lluakura Fan electrical service the control of Sell is being transferred from the Public Works Department to the Central Waikato Electric-Power Board. He was working at the top of a serv.ee polo near the farm pfflces; . . ; Mr A. M. Lee, an agr.oultura instructor, who was working in a held 25 yards away, noticed Mr. Turner lying across the wires, and pn investigating found that he was dead.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 34, 10 February 1939, Page 9
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