OPERATOR SHOCKED
Presa Assoeiation. )
Electrical Discharge Over Radio
(] Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Niyht. Momentarily stunued by an electrical discharge from his earphones when on duty during the height of the storm on Friday night, Mr A. E. Goodman, second radio opcrator on the liner Akaroa, was flung backwards in his seat whiio the vessel was a short distance from the New Zealand coast ou its way to Auckland from Southamptou. Mr Goodman recovered shortly afterwards, being little the worse for his experience when the Akaroa berthed on Saturday afternoon. The Akaroa was one of several vessels ofE the New Zealand coast which ran into the storm at the end of last week, between midnight and two o'elock. "That part of the storm through which the Akaroa was steaming became very severe and the high seas and strong wind were aceompanied "by thunder 4nd lightning. One extremely vivid flash of lightning ran down the lead in wire from the aerial and discharged through the earphones being used by Mr Goodman in the radio operators' room on the boat d6ck. Mr Goodman was struck unconscious for a short time and assistance had to be summoned.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 84, 26 April 1937, Page 8
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