LINESMAN’S DEATH
FELL AGAINST HIGH TENSIION CABLE (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIMI, May 31. While engaged in main line inspection yesterday, Rupert Leslie Harty, aged 42, married, a linesman employed by the Marlborough Power Board, was electrocuted. Mr Harty, who had climbed a steel lattice tower to examine insulators, apparently fell against an 11,000-volt high-tension cable, receiving fearful burns on an arm and a leg and falling 34 feet to the ground. The accident was not discovered until the inspection gang, which had split up, reassembled at lunch time.
Mr Harty was a former King Country representative footballer and a Marlborough and Nelson champion swimmer.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380601.2.111
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
104LINESMAN’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in