FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK
FATHER AND SON KILLED
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, January 18. A 44-year-old lorry driver, David Augustus Charles Hayes, of Makarewa, and his son, Thomas Edward Hayes, aged 16, were killed by an electric shock at Makarewa yesterday.
A second son, David Bruce Hayes, aged 17, received a severe jolt, but his condition is satisfactory.
The accident occurred about 11 p.m. when the father and his two sons were lifting a 36ft pipe from a bore on their small farm. The pipe came free suddenly, over-balanced, and the hooked top caught in the power lines which run along Flora road next to the farm.
David Hayes managed to kick himself free from the pipe, but the other two were unable to let go and lost consciousness.
Neighbours telephoned a doctor and ambulance and immediately applied artificial respiration. At the Southland Hospital, working in relays, five doctors, the two ambulance men, sisters and nurses continued artificial respiration for more than two hours but there was no response. -Press, 19/1/1952.
BOY’S EFFORTS TO SAVE LIVES
COMMENDATION BY CORONER
(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, January 26. The courage of a 17-year-old boy in attempting to save the lives of his father and brother was commended by the Coroner (Mr C. G. G. Sinclair) at an inquest in Invercargill to-day into the deaths on January 17 of David Augustus Charles Thomas Edward Hayes.
Praising the lad, David Bruce Hayes, for his presence of mind, the Coroner said that he did his best to save his father and brother by pushing a heavily-charged pipe away from them with a piece of dry manuka.
Finding that the two men had died from electric shock, Mr Sinclair recommended that the power authorities should place danger notices on all poles carrying high tension wires close to buildings. -Press, 28/1/1952.
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