BOY ELECTROCUTED
* ON TOP, OF 70 FOOT POLE. (Per Press Association — Copyright.) , V. NAPIER, March 9. 'Through cqpyng in contact with a 11,000 volt power dints, a thirteen-year-old Maori boy, Tctarihi Arapata Hak.p mai. was fatally .electrocuted ,at Fern* hill this evening. The deceased climbed a 70 foot \jiower t pole to look for cows. When he, came 'in contact with tho line, lie. fell to the ground, and he was found dead with his clothes burning. Death' was apparently instantaneous. >.r
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1933, Page 6
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