ELECTRIC SHOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 24

ELECTRIC SHOCK

FATALITY ON A FARM

CORONER'S IMPORTANT NOTE

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 1

A recommendation that all power boards should make it known to their consumers..that any person suffering from electric shock should be treated as in cases of drowning by respiratory methods, which should be kept up for a considerable time, was made by the Coroner, Mr. Harris,- at an inquest-hi Huntly into the death on Friday of Warrard Stevenson Archer, farmer, aged 26, of Naike.

Louise Handley stated that he was helping the deceased to erect a telephone , wire for three-quarters of a mile across a gully. The wire was beneath a high tension electric wire, which was about 80 feet above the bottom of the gully. They were both pull^ ing on the wire wlien the deceased fell down, crying out, "Don't touch tlie wire. I have had a shock." Witness called the deceased's brother, but he was dead a few minutes later.

A verdict was returned that death resulted from suffocation caused by an electric shock when a telephone wire being strained by the deceased came into, contact with an 11.000-volt electric wire.