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FATALITY NEAR WHAKATANE. CHANGING LIGHT POINT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Whakatane, this day. While changing the position of a light point in a milking shed on hi 3 father's farm at Opouriao last night, Mr. Archibald Peter John Murray, aged 23, was electrocuted. The body was later discovered by his brother, Mr. George Murray, who found the lights still burning and the junction of two pieces of conduit unscrewed. The deceased's hands and chest were badly burned and it is supposed that death was instantaneous. •
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4951, 4 February 1937, Page 4
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86MAN ELECTROCUTED King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4951, 4 February 1937, Page 4
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