IN CASE OF SHOCK
TREATMENT OF SUFFERERS DEATH FROM POWER LINE (Special to Times) HUNTLY, Wednesday A recommendation that all power boards should make it known to their consumers that any person suffering an electric shock should be treated, as in cases of drowning, by respiratory methods, which should be kept up f<Sf*.a fcbnsidttrable time, was made by the coroner,'Mr F. Harris, at an inquest to-day at Huntly, into the death on Friday of Mr Warrard Stevenson Archer, farmer, aged 26, of Naike. - ™ Louis Raymond Handley said he was helping deceased to erect a telephone wire for three-quarters of a mile across a gully. The wire was beneath a high-tension electric wire, which was about 80ft above the bottom of the gully. They were both pulling on the wire when Mr Archer fell down, crying out: “ Don’t touch the wire; I have had a shock.” He was dead a few minutes later.
A verdict was returned that death was caused by an electric shock when a telephone wire being strained by deceased came into contact with an 11,000-volt electric wire.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 2
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180IN CASE OF SHOCK Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 2
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