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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 June 1925, Page 7

Iris Handley. 16-year-old daughter of Mr E. F. Handley, Goulburn, was walking past the water tank in the backyard of her narents’ residence at Kenmore. and stepped into a pool of water. She clutched the earth wire of the electric light supply, and was dead in an instant. Apparently the water provided n circuit for the current, which flashed through the girl’s bodv. The Goulburn voltage was only 240! and the electrical engineer, Mr H. K. Coutts, stated that it was seldom that fatalities were recorded at such a low current. Tt was only a few months since Iris’s sister was killed by a fall from a motor lorry. A tribal war was waged bv two aboriginal tribes at Garrandunga recently, says a Brisbane message, and three’ blacks were afterwards brought into Irinisfail for treatment, suffering from wounds all over the head and bodv. The. police arrested two other natives, and charged them with occasioning, bodily harm. The conflict was waged with all the fierceness possible amid a great uproar, and was only brought to an end by the exhaustion of both sides. At the Wellington municipal destructor on Tuesday five tons and three hundredweights of ballot-papers from the last General Election of members of the House of Representatives were consigned to the flames iii the presence of the Clerk cf the House and the Clerk of Writs. It took six men three and a half hours to shovel the ballot papers into the destructor.