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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17857, 1 September 1923, Page 18

By thoughtlessly drawing some galvanised iron From one roof to another across an alleyway between two New Plymouth buildings one afternoon last week, a plumber let his fellow-work-men in for a lively few minutes. Th® sharp edge of tne corrugated iron cut through the insulation of an electric connexion between the buildings and short-circuited tlie current tween the two iron roofs, and the man, holding the irop found himself suddenly deposited on his back on the roof, while his companions were dancing a variation of a Russian Mazurka on tho electrically charged roofs. On the pavement near the water-pipe on to which the ground wire, which is the safety-valve on occasions such as this, was earthed, there was a brilliant display of electric sparlcs which caused some conternation to pedestrians who of course, were mostly unaware of what was hardening up above until the offending sheets of iron had been moved by the aid of a friendly pieoe of wood. Certainly the plumbers left more comfortable, but the occupants of premises on the connexion were very wrath as alt their fuses had been blown out, otherwise luile damage was done., ex.oepl* whiere the <Jharge had burntfc through the spouting around one building and left its mark on •the wood.