CHILD IN DANGER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 154, 1 July 1937, Page 21

CHILD IN DANGER.

SUCKING DETONATOR.

BOYS STOLE GELIGNITE.

QUARRY MAGAZINE RIFLED.

(T!j T>'lfsrrnph.—Press Association.)

W K LF. I X(JTONT, Wednesday

The danger of playing with detonator- was >trc.-scd by Mr. IT. |\ .Lawrv. JOI.. in the Children's Court at Petoue, «h"ti a boy was charged with two

I 111 I'.-, who V. ill ap|tear to-imu-niw. with tin* tliclt of 200 detonators and also wnli I'-.r tlu-fi of eiuht sticks of ii on one (lav and six sticks of ?■ li'iiitc nn another. In all four < li i i;f- nt Mu-tt were made against the !>n\ and one of mischief. Another bov appeared on two charges of theft. Detective F. \*. Robinson said that the boy and two others stole the gelignite iiiid detonators from the Gracefiehl quarry, breaking into a concrete magazine. They emptied, the powder uut'of the detonators and threw stones until the powder exploded. One of the oovs j threw some of the detonators away and they were found by young children. A man came to the police station and said lie found his child with a detonator in his mouth. He took the detonator away from the child and threw it in a (ire anil then there was an explosion. Mr. La wry said the boys might have been killed. The detonators were capable of blowing up a house. The child who had a detonator in his mouth might have had his head blown off, as bitiii" on a detonator would explode it. The boys, who were first offenders, were admonished and discharged, and ordered to make restitution.