AN ELECTRIC SHOCK.
MAN RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTtHURCH. Friday. An unusual accident occurred on the wharf at Lyttelton this morning. George Edwards, married, residing at Waltham, and an outdoor employee of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, was cleaning out one of the auger holes which had been bored through the decking and the railway sleepers underneath, when the point of the auger ponetrated the insulator of the electric cables that "operated the cranes and capstan, with the result that he received a shock which rendered his unconscious. He was carried on a stretcher to the casualty ward, where he was attended by Dr. B. H. Gilmour, who later said that Edwards had escaped with slight shock, from which he would not suffer any illeffects and that he would soon be ready for discharge from the casualty ward.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19406, 14 August 1926, Page 8
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138AN ELECTRIC SHOCK. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19406, 14 August 1926, Page 8
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