PLOUGHING TRAGEDY.
FARMER'S SUDDEN DEATH. (From Our Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, Sunday. While ploughing yesterday afternoon Mr. William Henry Newcombe. farmer, of Runciman, suddenly dropped dead. He was assisting his son-in-law, Mr. A. Duke, to plant potatoes, and was ploughing while Mr. Duke was sowing the seed. Mr. Duke happened to look up and saw that the horses had stopped but were restive. He went back and found Mr. Xewcombe dead behind the plough. Deceased had been under medical attention for some years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 124, 29 May 1939, Page 7
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