FARMER KILLED
AN ELECTRIC SHOCK
. While engaged in .erecting private telephone wires .on his property .at Naike,ls miles west of Huntly, a young farmer was electrocuted shortly before noon yesterday, states a correspondent. He was Warrard Steveson Archer, aged 25, single.. . Mr.. Archier and , a neighbouring farmer,. Mr. L. R; Handley, were stretching, wires, across a gully when they came in contact with *a power line. Both men were holding the wires at the time, but Mr. Handley was wearing, rubber gumrboots, which saved him from the full force of the shock. Mr, Archer .was to have been married next week.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 13
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101FARMER KILLED Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 103, 28 October 1939, Page 13
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