ELECTRICITY LEAKAGES.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1927, Page 4

ELECTRICITY LEAKAGES.

SYDXKV, Nov. 10. A number of casualties—some of them fatal—have occurred lately through leaking electric current. Nobody seems to know who is to blame, but parents living near power stations or electric mains have become nervous- • The City •Council controls most of the electric supply to Sydney. It has beei. spurred into action by the latest ease under notice, in which the daughter of Mr IT. C. M. G-arling narrowly escaped death. The girl was playing near a jetty at Hose Hay, Sydney .Harbour, when suddenly she was heard to shriek. Rushing over, her father, who was walking along the beach, found her with her face almost livid, and huddled against the staging of the jetty, with her hands clasped round what looked like ~ water-pipe. She was unconscious. On touching her to draw her hands away from the pipe. Mr Carling himself received a shock.

A doctor afterwards stated that it was must fortunate that both daughter and father happened to lie wearing rubber-soled shoes; otherwise it v.as almost, certain there would have been another fatality. Apparently the pipe covered an electric cable, and there was a leakage somewhere. The girt recovered, but tlm case leaves a very apprehensive reeling in the minds of parents.