DAMAGE BY A RAT
capital IN darkness
CANBERRA AND OTHER TOWNS
The unknown urge which compelled tt , rat to enter- a'' cubicle In the Canberra electric-power ‘house after midnight recently resulted in Canbei’ra, Queanbeyan, Yass, . Cootaniundra and Burriiijuck being plunged into darkness, and' the rat losing its' life. • The rat came into contact with, the cable ■ which, conveys current to Queanbeyan t ; 'it caused a short' circuit, which respited , in', a blinding firah.. It, took half an hour to. restore the light in Oanberra, and two hours hi Queanbeyan, An. automatic device, at the other centres came into, operation,''and the .darkness there. lasted only a few seconds. v ...
Several guest* reiunning late to a .Canberra, hotel were handed candles as they''/entered*. A ■ niunher of bridge •parties had to be abandoned, and those pedestrians/ caught unawares were at a.:-loss; tem fin-d ...their , way along the maze.; of . circuits-• land, crescents that constitute- the- tlior/Uphfares of the Tedergl. icapitdh city.. ■ v-
* The body of the rat, through, which had passed 700 Q--volts of electric current, was found tov be- •. only slightly singed,• • : - •■• •- ■... '•
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 6
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180DAMAGE BY A RAT Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1933, Page 6
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