BROKEN POWER WIRE.
CURRENT CONVEYED TO FENCES FARMER. ELECTROCUTED. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION - TE AWAMUTU, Feb. 23. A fatality occurred at the Terore settlement, ten miles from Te A.wamutu, about eight o’clock this morning. A well-known pettier named Hendrickson, when driving a herd of cows across! the road, touched a fence and was fatally electrocuted. His wife noticed Hendrickson on the ground. Thinking a bull had gored him, she ran to assist hi in and called some neighbours named Coxhead, McKinnon, and Coxhead’s . employee, John Oarruthers, a recent arrival from Canada. Carruthers went to turn the. cows into the paddock and touched - the fence, sustaining a. severe electric ' shock and' bad burns across the back and the left hand. Oarruthers was removed to 'the Waikato Hospital. One cow belonging to Hendrickson, a ; mare belonging to another neighbour (Garrett), and Coxhead’s dog wen? all fatally electrocuted. A bittern was found beneath the broken wires, which had a 3000 voltage, 2000 yards away. It is sipmised the bittern flew into the wires., knocking them together and causing a break. One wire fell on .to- the fence, electrifying it for 3000 yards. The deceased was highly respected He was a. returned soldier and leaves a / widow and two young children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 5
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207BROKEN POWER WIRE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 24 February 1925, Page 5
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