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CURRENT .DEFIED, A dogman, Norman Cox, of Balmain, Sydney, made contact, with a GOO-volt current. I'rom a. severed tramway wire in Castlereagh Street and was harmedCox was working in a crane bucket on a. new building at. the corner of Castlereagh and Market Streets. The bucket, descending, struck the overhead cable, breaking it with a loud report, and a great flash of blue flame, Cox immediately signalled to be raised out of danger. The accident having occurred' at knock-off time, lie calmly put on his coat, and went. home. Because he was a "passenger” on the electrical circuit and not part, of it. the dogman was in a position corresponding to the sparrow which alights on a high tension wire, and so unhurt.
Police were rushed to the spot to drive back a. big crowd around the “live," cable, ends, which Hung flames and sparks across Castlereagh Street. Tram services were halted for half an hour, while power in the section from King to Bathurst Streets was cut off and repairs made.
Mr Cox was so unconcerned over his experience that he did not trouble to mention the occurrence ito his family on arrival home. After dinner he read, for a while and went to sleep. “This is the- first we have heard of the matter,” said a member of the’ household when interviewed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 February 1938, Page 10
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