KILLED BY SHOCK
Car Brought Down Wires
A young man was killed by an electric shock about 9 p.m. on Monday after the car in which he was travelling struck a high-tension power pole near Hawarden. He was:
Bruce Densley Chisholm, aged 22, single, of Horsley Downs, only son of Mr and Mrs M. Chisholm, of Molesworth station.
Mr Chisholm was driving on the Hawarden-Lake Sumner road towards Horsley Downs. After taking a slight bend in the road the car, side on, struck and snapped a power pole.
Mr Chisholm suffered only minor injuries and hailed a passing car driven by a Mr D. McLennan. He then returned to his car, and touched the hanging 11,000-volt wires.
Mr McLennan took Mr Chisholm to Waikari, where Dr A. H. Meikleham found he was dead.
An inquest was opened for identification yesterday morning and adjourned sine die.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31188, 12 October 1966, Page 18
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