FIVE COWS KILLED.
ELECTROCUTED ON FARM
BREAKING OF POWER LINE
(By Telegraph.— Own Correspondent.)
HAMILTON, this day.
Five dairy cows were electrocuted as the result of an electric power line snapping during Tuesday night on the property of Mr. J, B. Steele, a, farmer, of Campbell Road. Walton. The whole of the herd was in the paddock at the time. There was no wind during the night, and the cause of the break in the line is not known. The faultmen of the Thames _ A allev Electric Power Board were notified or the mishap yesterday morning, and the line was repaired.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 11
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