LUCKY ESCAPE.
Man Knocked Over By Explosion. Press Association —Copyright. Ashburton, Las tNight. Knocked over by an electrical explosion when a 66,000-volt wire snapped with the force of the wind at Fairton last night, Mr. C. McKendry had a narrow escape from death. As the wire was making “alive” all contacts, Mr. McKendry unwittingly ran a serious risk in clambering over a wire fence to extinguish a fire which -the live wire started in a plantation some two chains away.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 5
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80LUCKY ESCAPE. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 5
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