MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
GIRL CLUTCHES POWER LINES PA NELSON, Jan. 17. An eight-year-old girl who climbed on to the roof of a separator room attached to a cowshed at East Takaka and clutched the overhead power lines had a miraculous escape from electrocution. She was Beverley Berthelsen, daughter of Mr and Mrs L. V. Berthelsen. of Wainui Bay, Takaka. The evening milking had been completed and Mr Berthelsen was washing up when he missed his daughter. Going outside, he called the child, but there was no reply. Looking up, he saw the girl hanging from a 230volt single-phase power line leading into the milking shed. The child appeared to be unconscious, and was bent almost double. Mr Berthelsen rushed inside the building and threw the main switch, releasing the girl, who fell with a scream on to the roof of the separator room. She quickly revived, and apart irom minor shock and burns across the hands, suffered no ill-effects-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 6
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