LINESMAN KILLED
CONTACTED POWER WIRE EFFORTS AT RESUSCITATION (By i> .* j \c-'n/'| a tlnn) HASTINGS, Wednesday While engaged in repairing power lines in Hastings this morning Mr Alfred Gordon Read, a married man aged about 37 years, was electrocuted and he subsequently died at the Memorial Hospital. Mr Read was at the top of a power pole and apparently contacted a 230volt wire. He was seen by a ganger to fall across a 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 death had intervened.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21228, 26 September 1940, Page 5
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121LINESMAN KILLED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21228, 26 September 1940, Page 5
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