BOYS BLINDED.
CHEMICAL EXPLOSION. BOTH RECOVER LATER. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. An explosion of photographic material in a yard in Gover Street, Isew Plymouth, caused temporary blindness to two boys, -J. Murray and H. Ellis. Murray escaped with a slight cut on the leg from flying glass, but Ellis received severe lacerations to the hand which necessitated the insertion of a number of stitches. Tho boyß were playing with an inflammable photographic apparatus in the yard of Murray's home, when a spark ignited a bottle of liquid. The explosion which resulted hurled both boys to the ground, while the glass from a broken bottle was sent flying as high as the roof of a storey and a ■half house.
Fortunately the glass did not touch the boys' faces, but it was some time before either could see owing to the blinding flame from the explosion. The force of the explosion may be judged from the fact that the whole house was shaken.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 10
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