Power Board Official Electrocuted
FELL AGAINST 11,COO VOLT CABLE Fer Press Association, i BLENHEIM, Last Night. ’ While engaged iu main line liispec- ' lion yesterday, Mr. Rupert Leslie Harty, aged 42, married, linesman, cm- • ployed by the Marlborough Power t Board, who climbed a steel lattice tower • to examine the insulators, apparently u fell against an 11,000-volt high-teusiou t cable, sustaining fearful burns to au j arm aud leg and lulling 34ft. to the j ground. The accident was not discover- - ed until the inspection gang, which had r split up, re assembled at lunch time. Mr. - Harty was a former King Country rei presentative footballer aud Marlborougu 3 and Nelson champion swimmer.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 127, 1 June 1938, Page 4
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