FARMER KILLED
FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCK ERECTING TELEPHONE WIRES MARRIAGE PLANNED NEXT WEEK [FROM OCR OWN correspondent] HUNTLY, Friday While engaged in erecting private telephone wires on his property at Naike, 15 miles west of Huntly, a young farmer was electrocuted shortly before noon to-day. The victim was: —» Mr. Warrard Steveson Archer, aged 25, single. Mr. Archer and a neighbouring farmer, Mr. L. R. Handley, were stretching wires across a gully when they came in contact with a power line. Both men were holding the wires it the time, but Mr. Handley was wearing rubber gum-boots, which saved him from the full force of the shock. Mr. Archer was to have been married *Bext week.
An inquest will be opened at Huntly to-morrow morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 10
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