LINESMAN’S DEATH.
Per Press Association. 4 HAWERA, March 7. At an inquest on Lindsay Allan, aged 35, a foreman telegraph linesman, who was killed at Kaponga, on Wednesday, the Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Evidence was given to the effect that deceased was astride a cross-arm of the telegraph polo when _ he came into contact with a high tension power lino running overhead. Another linesman heard deceased call and saw him fall into the telegraph wires with a flash of blue flames between his body and the wires. A linesman mounted a ladder and grasped deceased’s leather body belt, which broke, deceased falling 16 feet to the ground.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 86, 8 March 1930, Page 12
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