MAN ELECTROCUTED
POWER HOUSE FATALITY [By Telegraph—Press Association] TE KUITI, This Day. While taking measurements for the installation of new equipment at Wairere (Falls power house, Frances Rosengrave Harvey, aged 50 years, married, was electrocuted. Harvey was standing behind the guard rail when his assistant, Huia Boddington, saw him suddenly collapse. He was taken outside, but application of resuscitation was unavailing. It is surmised that a folding box wood rule he was using made contact with the electrified portion of the machine, while his left hand grasping the guard rail effectively earthed him.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 10 January 1936, Page 5
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