DEATH IN CURRENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19162, 19 November 1927, Page 15

DEATH IN CURRENT.

ELECTRICITY LEAKAGES,

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SYDNEY, November 10. A number of casualties —gome of them fatal—have occurred lately through leaking electric current. Nobody seems to know who i» to blame, but parents living near power stations or electric mains have become nervous. The City Council controls most of the electric supply of Sydney. It has been spurred into action by the latest case under notice, in which the daughter of Mr H. C. M.- Garling narrowly escaped death. The girl was playing near a jetty at Eose Bay, Sydney Harbour, when suddenly she was heard to shriek. Bushing over, her father, who was walking along the beach, found her with her face almost livid, and huddled against the staging of the jetty, with her hands clasped round what looked like a water-pipe. She was unconscious. On touching her to draw her hands away from the pipe, Mr Garling himself received a shock.

A doctor afterwards stated that it was most fortunate that both dangler and father happened to be wearing rubber-soled shoes; othe'wise it was almost certr.in there would have been another fatality. Apparently the pipe covered an electric cable, and there was a leakage somewhere. The girl recovered, bnt theljswe leaves a very ap« prehensive feeling in tlw minds of, parent*.