FALLEN POWER LINES
MISHAP ON WANGANUI FARM A’ALUABLE COW ELECTROCUTED BOARD REFUSES COMPENSATION Having lost a valuable cow through an electric power line breaking after a recent frost, a farmer applied to the Wanganui-Rangitikei Power Board yesterday for compensation. Owing to the heavy rainfall and the consequent softness of the ground, the power pole at the angle of three power lines hud given six inches at the head, causing one of the lines to tauten, and, after a heavyfrost, to break. As the lines were on the farmer’s own property, the question was simplified, stated the secretary. Mi W. Morrison thought that although the board could take no responsibility, the farmer should be met halfway. Mr McManaway: That would open up a very big question. If the board started compensating farmers for loss of stock through contact with broken lines on farmers’ properties, boards throughout the Dominion would have to follow suit. It was decided after further discussion, that the board’s sympathy be expressed to the farmer, but that the board could take no responsibility. An amendment that the farmer be met half-way as to compensation, was lost.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 6
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188FALLEN POWER LINES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 191, 14 August 1931, Page 6
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