TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED
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By Telegraph-
CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 16. Two linesmen of the Post and Telegraph Department were eleetroeuted about 2.30 p.m. xoday at Hororata. They were engaged in replacing telephone wires when one wire contacted a poxver line. The men were: — Frank Methven, aged 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Methven, Halswell. John Leslie Bell, aged 32, whose mother lives at St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. Artifieial respiration was applied for . two hours without suceess. v A third man, Percival Edward Walton, aged 25, 43 Hood -Street, New Brighton, suffpi'ed injuries whieh are not considered serious.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 September 1946, Page 5
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