PETROL IGNITED.
SPARK FROM TOY PISTOL.
BOY SEVERELY BURNED,
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Monday. While an eight-gallon drum was being filled from a petrol pump at Doug as Saturday, a boy named Eric Wills along and fired a toy pistol. '-P 2 from the cap ignited the petrol u and flames reached the boy's c o He ran into a store where Mr. • Bredow promptly flung a tarpaulin him and smothered the flames. The boy was severely burned ana taken to the Stratford Hospital.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 304, 24 December 1929, Page 14
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