BENZINE BLAZE.
MAN'S BODY BURNED.
ACCIDENT AT KAIWAKA.
LONG AMBULANCE JOURNEY.
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ! DARGAVILLE, this day. An ambulance of the Northern Wairoa division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade had a 120-mile trip yesterday to Kaiwaka and back to the Northern Wairoa Hospital with a patient, Mr. Sam Williams, an employee of Mr. W. E. Dunn, of Kaiwaka. The patient had been lighting a fire, presumably with the use of benzine, and was enveloped in flames, the whole of the clothing on the lower portion of hie body being burnt off. Mr. Williams was alone at the time and lie extinguished the flames by rolling in the dirt near a cowshed. He then had to walk three-quarters of a mile to the homestead. The accident happened about 10 a.m. The ambulance left Dargaville about two o'clock for Kaiwaka, and the Northern Wairoa Hospital was readied after seven o'clock. The patient stood • the journey well. The Paparoa Hospital was passed en route, cases of the nature not being admirable at that institution.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 241, 12 October 1933, Page 9
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