Nine-Year-Old Boy Who Climbed Power Pole Electrocuted

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 November 1950, Page 6

Nine-Year-Old Boy Who Climbed Power Pole Electrocuted

DUNEDIN, Last Night (PA'.—A nine-year-old boy, Clifford Stuait Duncan, was electrocuted when he climbed a power pole and received a shock from a transformer near his home in Waverley, a Dunedin suburb, tonight. The boy was admitted to the casualty department of the public hospital at 7.45 p.m., but he was then found to be dead. tention to do so took effect next April, it could not be said that any member had a pecuniary interest in the Bill at the present time. Mr Harker said the Standing Orders required that if a vote was to be challenged there must be a motion relating to the vote of a particular memMr McCombs said he had deliberately refrained from naming members, as he did not wish to discuss their private ousiness. If necessary, he could name five members coming within the categories he had mentioned. The Prime Minister (Mr Holland) said it was clear that no member could at the present time have a pecuniary interest such as would make him ineligible to vote. Mr McCombs had said that he could name five members associated with insurance Co "l P ffivite him to say if he had me in mind,” said Mr Holland. Mr McCombs: I invite the’ ?> ■ Minister to say if he comes within the “SX* were exchanged several times between th Prune Ministr and Mr McCombs Mr Holland then said that he was ■ not involved, directly or 'direct y. ,He was not a director of ® n y msurance company writing workers <■ . pensation Insurance. , 1 The former Minister of Works (Mr Semple) Are you a shareholder.

Mr Holland: No. The Minister of Lands <Mr Cor bett): And he’s not broke, either. Mr Semple, rising to a point ot order, asked what the Minister of Lands meant by that. Mr Corbett: You can take it any

wav like. . _» MfSemole asked if the remark had been intended to apply to him personally, and. in other brisk exchanges, he said to the Minister of Lands: You re a liar. _ , Mr Harker asked Mr Semple to withdraw. T Mr Semple; I withdraw that, but i mean it, sir. Mr Semple was called on by the Chairman of Committees to withdraw unreservedly. He did so, but added: 'I would respectfully ask him to say that to me outside.' Mr Corbett, at the request of the Chairman of Committees, withdrew his original remark, and the incident closed. Mr Harker ruled that the motion nut bv Mr McCombs was out of order, but invited the member for Lvttelton Io challenge the vote of any individual member if he wished. Mr McCombs said that as he did not wish to discuss t.hn nnvate business of members he would not name any member.