Youth Electrocuted
(Special) HO WICK, This Day. A youth died, apparently from electrocution, at Howick last night. He was:— John Westcott Wyman, 18. a refrigerating -‘'apprentice, of Drake Street, Howick. Wyman had connected an electric lead of about 30ft from the bathroom of his house to a shed, where he was constructing a boat. Apparently he received a shock while inserting an electric bulb. A doctor was called from Papatoetoe but the young man was dead when he arrived.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1947, Page 2
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79Youth Electrocuted Northern Advocate, 6 September 1947, Page 2
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