ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
NEARLY ELECTROCUTED. £Per United Press Association.) Auckland, June 12. Arthur N. Wishart, single, aged 28, while manipulating one of the wireless sets at the Chief Post Office bridged two live wires subjected to high voltage and was rendered unconscious. He was admitted to hospital suffering from partial electrocution. His condition is satisfactory. ARM AND LEG SEVERED. Auckland, June 12. A two-year-old child named Dobbs, wandering on the railway line at Huntly Crossing, was run over by a goods train, and had an arm and leg severed. The child is in a precarious condition.
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Southland Times, Issue 19895, 14 June 1926, Page 7
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