THREE MEN ELECTROCUTED
CONTACT WITH 11,060 VOLTS. VICTIMS LEAVE 24 DEPENDENTS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Hobart, Jan. 27. Three men employed by the Public Works Department were electrocuted at New Norfolk when a wire on a winch which they were working came into contact with a hydro-electric transmission wire carrying 11,000 volts. The victims were: Alfred Sutton, aged 45, married, with three children; Charles Shaw, aged ’44, married, with seven children; Richard Harrison, married, with eleven children.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1934, Page 7
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