OPOSSUMS TO BLAME
CUT-OFF OF ELECTRIC POWER PLAYING ON THE POLES First at 7 o’clock and later at about 10.30 on Monday night power lines leading from Waikino to Paeroa and surrounding districts, were found to be switched off. The reason was a mystery to all except the linesmen who discovered that two opossums, playing on the poles at these two different times, had “stopped” the 11,000 volts carried by the lines.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 10 July 1942, Page 4
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