FATAL EXPLOSION.
FARMER'S TRAGIC DEATH. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] PEILDINCt, Friday. Neville Shute, a farmer, of Bunnythorpe, was working in his garden yesterday afternoon, and after making a casual remark apparently indicating that he was in the best of spirits, he went to a shed. An explosion was heard, and he was found with his head blown off. Apparently a plug of gelignite had exploded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 10
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