LINESMAN KILLED
TMTAT. fall ACROSS LIVE
WIRES
fßy Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
OAMARU, Nov. 2.1
Stanley Wilson, a linesman, employed bv the Waitaki Electric Power Board, while engaged in altering low tension wires a t CL lake at 4 o’clock this afternoon, apparently lost his footing, and fell across two low tension wires. His companion cut the wires and brought him down, They applied first aid methods, and medical aid was summoned, hut their efforts at resuscitation, lasting four hours, failed,' and death ensued from shock. Deceased leaves a young wife and child.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 6
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