LINESMAN KILLED
By Telegraph—Press Association.
CONTACTED LIVE WIRE
Hastings, Sept. 26. While engaged in repairing power lines in Hastings yesterday. Alfred Gordon Read, married, aged about 37, was electrocuted and subsequently died at the Memorial Hospital. Read was on top of a power pole and apparently eontacted a 230-volt wire. He was seen by a ganger to fall across the cross arm attached to the pole and there he hung until he was lowered to the ground by ropes. Artificial respiration was immediately resorted to and at the hospital he was placed in an iron lung but after about an hour's treatment it was apparent that life was extinct.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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109LINESMAN KILLED Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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