YOUNG BOY ELECTROCUTED
APPARENTLY SWINGING ON WIRE By Tel.graph.—Press Association. ' Wellington, Sept. 27. A boy aged 14, Thomas David Allanson, was electrocuted at Lower Hutt this morning. Apparently a wire was stretched between two poles, from near the top of one and tied to the other a. few feet from thb ground. The boy was swinging on this, it is surmisedj and caused it to come in contact with the live wires. Nothing, however, is known definitely. The wire is on railway property.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 September 1930, Page 7
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