ACCIDENT AT ADDINGTON
MAN RECEIVES ELECTRIC SHOCK
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Last Night,
Working at a height of 40 feet above the ground yesterday afternoon at the Addington workshops, Thomas William Newton, aged twenty-eight, received such a severe electric shock that he became unconscious and had to be admitted to hospital. He is still an inmate of that institution but his condition to-day has improved and he is off the “seriously ill list Newton was strapped to an electric .sane Some men working down below ,-aw him suddenly become unconscious and v.f-Dt to his assistance.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 7
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95ACCIDENT AT ADDINGTON Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 7
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