LINESMAN’S DEATH
CRUSHED BY GIRDER. FATALITY AT SUB-STATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A Public Works linesman, Ronald Kohika, was crushed to death when a steel girder weighing over one ton fell at the Pahautanui sub-station late on Saturday afternoon. The girder, which was being erected to carry some of the electrical equipment, slipped and pinned Kohika underneath. A doctor was summoned, but death must have been instantaneous.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1942, Page 2
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69LINESMAN’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1942, Page 2
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