ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
YOUNG MAN electrocuted ;Pi<vs A ■'•snciaHon ■ AUCKLAND, May 16 Thomas Cook, aged 19, was electrocuted to-night in the backyard of a fish shop in Symond’s Street, Royal Oak, whore bo lived. He was using a , lead and crossing a wet concrete floor, when he receiver] a shock. It was some minutes before he was discovered lying on the floor. Artificial respiration was attempted by a doctor for 20 minutes. STATION MANAGER DROWNED. (press Association.) WANGANUI, May 16. While on his way down the. Wanganui river, in a canoe to join his wife and children in Wanganui to go on their annual holidays. Darnel Clark, manager of the Ohuraiti station at Kawata. was drowned near Pipiriki' this morning. Th o canoe in which Clark and his companion R. Powell, were travelling capsized in the. Ngaparo rapids.—P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11946, 17 May 1933, Page 5
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