A FATAL SHOCK
FARM LABOURER ELECTROCUTED. (Per United Press Association.) New Plymouth, July 17. Robert George William Divinn, a farm labourer, aged 30, was electrocuted to-day on the farm of his employer, Albert Henry Burrell, Oaimata, where he and his wife were employed. Divinn and Burrell had felled a tree winch fouled the wire of an electric light pole leading to a pump on the property. Burrell went to drive bulls into the cowyard lest they should be electrocuted. Then Burrell heard Divinn scream and fopnd him with both hands on the top wire of a fence and unable to free hims.elf. Divinn’s wife was also attracted from the house by his screams and tried to put a wet sack on the wire, but a hedge prevented her. Burrell dragged Divinn off by his coat but Divinn died two minutes later. It had not been noticed that the tree had also fouled another wire leading to the house and Divinn had his hands on the wire of the fence to cross it, an unusual way to get to the house.
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Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 8
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180A FATAL SHOCK Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 8
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