Two Men Electrocuted Near Carterton
ANOTHER SERIOUSLY INJURED Per tram Association CARTERTON, Jan. 1. Two men were killed and two others injured during harvesting on the property of Mr. H. H. R. Renall at Kokotau, six miles from Carterton, about four o’clock this afternoon. Those killed were:— Edwin James, about 42, married. Bertie W. Renall, about 35, married. A man named Proctor (details at present unavailable) w r as very seriously burnt and is dangerously ill in hospital, while John Rayner suffered slight burns not requiring admission to hospital. The men were building a stack when a wire on the elevator broke. They were on the elevator mending the wire which slipped and short-circuited over an 11,000-volt line.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 6
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