POWER POLE SNAPS.
UNUIUAL AOOIDII‘I’. \VORKER iNJL‘RED AT TAUWHARI. , Mr Frank Middleton. (37). of ilrrine Slronl. llnmilion. an employ“ ‘0: "i 0 (‘mniral \Valkaio Electric vaer Board. rorcivcd sex-9rd internal and racial injuries yesterday when iiu~ ~2on pom-r pain on which he‘ wu \xl-ri‘inx: ui 'l‘aunhare snapped Al. the gi-uund and fell, pinning hlni beneath 11. ‘ Tim polo. “hirh was tilled I! I'3siighi angle. was reinforced a: th‘ ‘i‘nol will! a blnek of timber bu! both {me wom‘ien relnforvfng and ihe pole ii~olt broke and as Mr Middleton ml sin-upped on he was unable to {all Mom. I Hp “as nilvmimi hy nu) men work‘inz with him before iminx runveyrd lu HIP “'nikaln ilncruhl In .1 <L alnhll li,\mhulnm-e. liis condition index was 1 vsaiinfaciory. ‘ ‘ Tim au'ci-ivnl is in. first of ii: lillld ‘ In the history of the Llcniral Power Board. which has been eslablielxed In: 16 year-
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20145, 17 March 1937, Page 6
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