ELECTRICIAN KILLED.
ACCIDENT AT TUAI SCHEME. Per Press Association. WAIROA, Aug 6. A fatality occurred on the hydroelectric development scheme at I uai, last evening, when Keith Orawforc, single, aged 25. of Johnsonville, .who was doing electrical repair work in a tunnel, was electrocuted. Mr Crawford iiad been engaged as an electrician on tbs scheme for tlio-past six weeks. He evidently'came in contact with a live wire and when carried from the tunnel was in a critical condition, dying shortly afterwards.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 212, 6 August 1940, Page 6
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