WORKER ELECTROCUTED
HYDRO-ELECTRIC SCHEME (By Telegrapn.—Press Association) WAIROA, Tuesday A fatality occurred at the hydroelectric development scheme at Tuai (Lake Waikaremoana) when Mr Keith Crawford, single, aged 25, of Johnsonville, who was doing electrical repair work in a tunnel, was electrocuted. Mr Crawford had been engaged on the scheme for six weeks. He evidently came in contact with a live wire, and when carried from the tunnel was in a critical condition, dying shortly afterward.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 4
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