When a magpie carried a piece of wire into the main power line between Ashburton and Springfield recently, if caused one wire to be burnt right through and a second partly through. Power was weak in the Methven and Mayfield districts for about half an hour till the Mitcham loop line was cut in. When this was reported to' the Ashburton Power Board a member asked what happened to the magpie. ‘He was a very troublesome bird and probably got his deserts,” was the answer supplied by another member.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1939, Page 7
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