LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED.
Gisborne, Last Night. While working at Wiaimatat this afternoon on the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board’s extension to that district, Roy Bartlett, 27 years of age, a married man with two children under six years, was up a pole when he fell across a line with a voltage of 6,000, and was instantly electrocuted.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3835, 23 August 1928, Page 3
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56LINESMAN ELECTROCUTED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3835, 23 August 1928, Page 3
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