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Shannon News, 31 August 1923, Page 2

By thoughtlessly drawing some galvanised iron from one roof to another across an alleyway between two Njew Plymouth street buildings recently, a plumber let his. fellow workmen in for a lively few minutes. The sharp edge of the corrugated iron cut through the insulation of an electric connection between the buildings and short-circuited the current between the two iron roofs and the mail holding the iron found himself suddenly deposited on his hack on the roof, whilst his companions were dancing a variation of a Russian mazurka on the electrically charged roofs. On the pavement near the water-pipe on to which the ground wire, which is. the safety valve on occasions such as this, was earthed, there was a, brilliant, display of electric sparks which caused some consternation to pedestrians who, ot course, were mostly unaware of what was happening up above until the offending sheets of iron had, been, moved by the aid of a friendly P ] cce of wood. Certainly the plumbers felt more comfortable but the occupants of premises on the connection were very wrath as all their fuses had been blown out, otherwise little damage was done except where the charge had burnt through the spouting around one building and left its mnik on the wood.