The Central Fire Brigade answered a call at 3.3 p.m. yesterday to a grass fire on the railway embankment near Bridgman street. Thirty people have died as a result of. accidental electrocution in New Zealand during the past two years. There have been eight deaths already 'this year. Of the 30 people killed since the beginning of 1946, 15 were workmen who came into contact with live wires in + he course of thjeir employment. There have been four double fatalities in the period.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26689, 7 February 1948, Page 6
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