BOY ELECTROCUTED
ACCIDENT WITH SEWING MACHINE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Mar. 18. A three-year-old boy was electrocuted yesterday, apparently as the result of touching some part of an %lectric sewing machine. The victim was Jim Knight, son of Mr and Mrs W. T. Knight, of Ponsonby. The child was standing by the driving wheel of the machine watching his mother sewing. Mrs Knight turned her back to the machine for a few seconds, and on looking round again found the boy lying bn the floor. The child was found to dead before it could be taken to the hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25797, 19 March 1945, Page 4
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