TREE NEAR LINES
Telling Power Board Job’ (N Z. Press Association* AUCKLAND, Aug. 10 | A man who received a fatal shock when a tree he felled i brought down a power line i could have had the work done 'by the local power board, a i witness told the Coroner (Mr : A. D. Copeland). ' Ronald Bruce Taylor, test .engineer for the Electricity Department, said the supply I authority concerned, if requested. would have willingly carried out the work with experienced staff at no charge to the consumer. Taylor gave evidence at an inquest into the death of Stanley Richard Phillip Millington, aged 49, an engineer, who was killed when he ran into an 11,000-volt hightension power line brought down by the tree.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 3
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