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Opunake Times, Volume LVV, Issue 3675, 2 November 1923, Page 3

In Uruguay last year 300*000 cattle were treated as dried meat, for which there is a go:d demand. The Egmont County inter school sports will be held at Opunake in* February or March. A meeting of the committee and members will be called early in December. To the horror of onlookers, a workman at Notodden (Norway) railway stdtion .came into contact with the io,ooo volt “live wire" of the power station. They expected to see him in a I shrivelled up heap, but he went on with his work. . In vestigation revealed that the current had been cut off, short-circuited some miles away by a crow pecking at the insulation while perched on one of the carrying masts at the very moment when the man touched the live wire. But for this, the man would undoubtedly have been electrocuted.