CHAINMAN ELECTROCUTED
CONTACT WITH POWER LINE. (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post") AUCKLAND, This Day. A chainman in tho employ of the Public Works Department, Aubrey Stephen, aged S4 years, was electrocuted at Huntly, West early yesterday aftornoon.- It is reported that deceased tied a survey chain 'to a wire fence closo to the roadside, went down into the valley, and climbed up to the other sido of tho hill. The chain came in contact'with a 11,000-volt line. The deceased resided at Hamilton.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 8
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84CHAINMAN ELECTROCUTED Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 8
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