ELECTROCUTED ON FARM
FATE OF LABOURER FENCE BECOMES LIVE TREE ON POWER-LINE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday A farm labourer, Mr. George William Divin, aged 30, was electrocuted to-day on the farm of his employer, Mr. Albert Henry Burwell, Kaimata, 18 miles from New Plymouth, where he and his wife were employed. Messrs. Divin and Burwell had felled a tree which fouled an electric power wire leading to a pump on the property. Mr. Burwell went to drive bulls into the cowyard lest they should be electioouted. Ho heard Mr. Divin scream and found him with both hands on the top wire of a fence unable to free himself. Mrs. Divin, who was attracted from the house, tried to put a sack on the wire, but a hedge prevented her. Mr. Burwell dragged Mr. Divin from the wire by his coat, but Mr. Divin died two minutes later.
It had not been noticed that the tree had also fouled another electric wire leading to the house and Mr. Divin had put his hands on the wire of the fence to cross it in the usual way to get to the house.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21855, 18 July 1934, Page 10
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193ELECTROCUTED ON FARM New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21855, 18 July 1934, Page 10
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