MAN ELECTROCUTED.
FATALITY AT FREEZING WORKS. HASTINGS, Tuesday. A married man. Thomas Allen, aged about 55 years, was eleotrocuted when working at the Whakatu freezing works this morning. Deoeased was an employee of the Post and Telegraph Department, and was engaged In running a telephone line out from one part of the works building to another, when he contacted with an 11,000-volt power line, and was killed instantly. He.lived at Hastings and is survived by a widow.
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18339, 27 May 1931, Page 11
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77MAN ELECTROCUTED. Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18339, 27 May 1931, Page 11
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