LINESMAN KILLED
CAUSE OF DEATH UNCERTAIN
(By Telegraph--Press Association)
HAAVERA, March 7
At tlic inquest on Lindsay Allan aged 35, foreman' telegraph linesman, who was killed at Kaponga on Wednesday, the Coroner to-day returned a verdict of accidental death, there being insufficient evidence to show whether the electric shock leading to his fall from a telegraph pole, and the resultant broken neck, or the latter, was the actual cause. The evidence showed deceased was astride the cross arm of a telegraph polo, when he came into contact with a high tension power line running overhead. Another linesman hoard the (incensed call, and saw him fall into the telegraph wires, with a flash of blue flames between his body and wires. The liimsman mounted a ladder and "■rasped the deceased’s leather hndv be ! t. which broke, the deceas-d then falling sixteen feet to the ground..
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1930, Page 6
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