NEARLY ELECTROCUTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 108, 24 May 1937, Page 6

NEARLY ELECTROCUTED

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Gisborne Man's Narrow Escape

(By .TelegrapU-

GISBORNE, This Day. Knocked unconscious from his bicycie when a live wire touched the front wheel, while he was racing to the assistance of some children in Hall street on Friday afternoon, Mr C. Priday, employed by the Gisborne Borough Council at the pumping station, had a narrow escape from being eleetrocuted. • While Mr Priday was riding his hicycle to the Hall street pumping station, he noticed a number of children trying to throw a piece of wire over the electric light wire. The children were erecting an aerial, and were apparently quite ignorant of the dangier. Fastening one end of the wire to a piece of string, a boy suddenly flung it over the live wire, and the next second the aerial wire had burst into flame. Shouting to the children to let go, Mr Priday managed to attract their attention, and they dropjfed it to the ground. A second later, when Mr Priday arrived on the scene, his bicycle touched a piece of the wire which he failed to notice on the ground. Instantly the current shot up through the bicycle to the rider, who was immediately flufig to the ground. Fortunately Mr Priday fell elear of the wire, otherwise he would prbbably have been electroeuted. Dr. E. Ewart' Brown, who was passing by at the time, attended to Mr Priday and subsequentlv drove ln'm home.