YOUNG MAN ELECTROCUTED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
WHAKATANE, This Day.
While changing the position of a light point in the milking shed on_ his father's farm at Opouriao last night, Archibald Peter John Murray, aged 23, was electrocuted. The body was later discovered by his brother George, who found the lights still burning and the junction of two pieces of conduit unscrewed. The deceased's hands and chest were badly burned. It is supposed that death was instantaneous.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 24
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