MAN ELECTROCUTED
TRAGEDY NEAR WELLINGTON
MARRIED ONLY ELEVEN DAYS.
WELLINGTON, March 26
The electrocuted body of a- man was found early on Saturday afternoon by a patrol linesman at the base of a high tension power standard at Kbandallah, a suburb of Wellington. The victim! has been identified as F. D. Dykes, a linesman employed at Napier by the hydro electric branch of the Public: Works Department, who was spending a holiday at Wellington. The body was discovered abouthalf a mile, north of Kbandallah power station, to which ta- current of 10,000 volts flows from Mangahoa,.
A tragic circumstance is tuat Dykes was married at Wellington eleven days ago. The time of his death is assumed to have been early on Friday
evening. The electric power in the city failed for about a minute that evening, the reason for which could not be discovered, but it is now believed that it was caused by the body of deceased coming in contact with • the wires. It js not known why the deceased was in the locality, which is a barren and wind swept one.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 March 1933, Page 2
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