POWER WIRES TOUCHED
MAORI BOY INJURED A seven-year-old Maori boy. Rangi Wnka, whose parents reside at Otalci, is an inmate of the Palmerston North Hospital suffering! from hunts to the arms caused through an electric shock.
The hoy noticed a ladder standing against an electric transformer and climbed up on to the platform. In doing so, he touched live wires, and he could not release his hold of them. A woman motorist came, to the assistance of the boy, and on bis release being effected lie fell from the platform. While he was fortunate to escape serious injury, he was burned about the arms, lie was taken in an ambulance to the hospital The condition of the boy is stated by the hospital authorities to be satisfactory.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 3
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127POWER WIRES TOUCHED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18580, 14 December 1934, Page 3
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