TWO MEN ELECTROCUTED
DUNEDIN. Mar. 11. Two iiiiddle-aged men, both residents of .Roxburgh East, were electrocuted wkile* engaged in liarvesting operations •it Roxburgh. Eaat late this afternoon, The victinis were James „MeDonald, inarried, with three children, and' John R. Watt, married, with one child. The aceident oecurred on McDonald's farni, both men being engaged in shiftmg hav. They were on a t'ully loaded hay-hoist when the hoist app^rently ■ame in contact with a high tension power line which crosses the farm. When otho.r workers reaehed the-spot they found that McDonald was dead but Watt, who was sufCering - from severe burns, was still alive. The injured man was taken to Roxburgh Hospital but he died about 10' minutes after admission^
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1947, Page 4
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