FATAL FALL FROM POLE.
DEATH OF A LINESMAN.
ACCIDENT AT PUTARURU.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PUTARURU, Thursday.
A linesman employed by the . Thames Valley Power Board, Mr. William James Adams, aged 45, a married man with two grown-up children, of Matamata, was killed in Putaruru this morning.
With three others "he was engaged in electric wiring, and without warning fell from the top of a pole. A doctor was summoned and on arrival pronounced life to be extinct. Tho unfortunate man's neck was broken.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20827, 20 March 1931, Page 10
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