KILLED BY SHOCK
Radio Station Technician (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, Sept. 7. A young man employed as a technician at the transmitter for the Greymouth radio station 3YZ, at Kumara Junction, was killed by an electric shock at 3.45 p.m. today. He was: ' Warwick Russell, aged 21, single, of 101 Leaver terrace, North New Brighton. Mr Russell had been transferred from Christchurch recently, and was living at the broadcasting station. Nobody at the station knew how Mr RusSell came into contact with a 9000-volt cable at the transmitter. Artificial respiration was immediately applied, and continued while Mr Russell was in an ambulance on the way to the Greymouth Hospital.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30540, 8 September 1964, Page 3
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