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MAN GETS ELECTRIC SHOCK. (By Telegraph.—rress Association.) FEILDING, Monday. Through an electric shock Harold Smith, married, with eight children, is now in hospital in a serious condition. Mr. Smith, who was an employee of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, was working yesterday with a gang under an engineer of the Board on repairs. The lower lines had been disconnected, but the lines on the top poles were not.
• 'Mr. Smith was on a pole restraining the dead lines when his shoulder contacted with an 11,000 volt line. He fell and was caught In the dead lines, which prevented his fall to the ground 25 feet below. His comrades lowered him by ropes in an unoonscious condition. He was sent to hospital.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19453, 18 December 1934, Page 5
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