CHAINMEN BURNED
Contact with Electric Wire By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin. December 10. At 11.15 this morning two chainmen working with a survey party which was sent to the Whare Flat district fropi the city engineer’s department came In contact, through a steel band being used by them at the time, with an electric cable. The men, Robert Duncan and Herbert Watson, are suffering from shock and burns. Both are married and reside In Dunediii. It seems that members of the party were working at a point near the Whare Flat RqimJ. and the ehainmen w?™ pulling the band across a gully. Owing to the surface formation of the country the band flew up and touched the cable. As the direct result of the accident there was a stoppace of electric power in one section of the city.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 13
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