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ALTERING LIGHT POINTS FATAL IT V ON FARM (Per Press Association.) WIIAKATANK, this day. While changing the position of a light point in a. milking shed on his, lather s farm at Opouriao last night. Archibald Peter John Murray, aged 23, was electrocuted.
The body was later discovered by his brother, George, who found the lights still burning and the, junction ol two pieces of conduit unscrewed. The deceased's hands and chest were badly burned, and if, is supposed that death was instantaneous.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19240, 4 February 1937, Page 6
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