ELECTRIC SHOCK
RESPIRATORY TREATMENT CORONER'S ADVICE DEATH OF A FARMER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND. this chy. A recommendation that, alt pnwoi boards should make it known to their consumers that any person suft'erin . from electric shock should be treated. ;u in cases of drowning, by respiratory which should be kept up for a considerable time, was made by the coroner, at an inquest at Huntly, into the death on Friday of Warrard Stevenson Archer, a farmer, aged 26. of Naike. Louis Handley stated that lie \vt: helping the deceased to erect a telephone wire. For three-quarters of ; mile across a gully the wire was beneath a high tension electric wire. which was about. 80ft, above the bottom of the gully. They were both pulling on Lie wire when the deceased fell down, crying out: "Don't touch the wire. I have had a shock." Witness called the deceased's brother, but he was dead 10 minutes later. A verdict was returned that death resulted from suffocation caused by electric shock when a telephone wire being strained by the deceased came into contact with an 11,000-volt electric wire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 16
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185ELECTRIC SHOCK Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 16
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