LIVE WIRES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2727, 1 May 1924, Page 4

LIVE WIRES.

WARNING TO SCHOOL CHILDREN.

In view of the fact that the country is now becoming a network of wires for transmitting electric current the Education Department is warning the school children through the medium of the School .Journal, of the danger arising from contact with live wires, which may, through falling trees, storms, or some other cause, become broken. Fox ton and district to-day are compassed about with a network of posts and wires that are destined to carry the Mangahao juice for lighting of our highways and by-way,-, and the power to drive the machinery of our industries, in the town .as well as on the, farm. In the town the wires are insulated thus reducing tire danger of the trailing wire to a minimum. But along the country roads the copper wire shimmer's in the sun. When loaded they will he very live wires, dealing death at a touch. It therefore becomes the bounden duty of everybody who knows to tell everybody else who doesn’t know about the coming dangers of dragging wires, which may come oil their poles as the result of one of the numerous storms that are part and parcel of Nature's economy. The parents and the school teachers are primarily and essentially the media for such instruction, and the children should be taught that it will be just as necessary to beware of the wires as to beware of all the other dangers of llie thoroughfares in the country.