FATAL BURNS.
STOVE EXPLOSION. EVIDENCE AT INQUEST. The danger of mixing petrol with kerosene for use in primus stoves was mentioned by Constable F. A. McKenzie and a storekeeper, Henry George Carter, when giving evidence at the inquest into the death of William James Morris, labourer, aged 52, who died in the Auckland Hospital on August 28. Deceased lived in a bach at Palm Beach, Waiheke Island. The bach caught fire and was burned down on the night of August 24, the deceased, who was in the bach at the time, receiving severe burns. While waiting to be sent to the Auckland Hospital, deceased, who was then conscious, said the primus stove had exploded. Constable McKenzie said that when he searched among the debris after the fire he found a partly melted primus stove without the filter cap on. He thought the deceased must have used a mixture of petrol and kerosene and it had exploded. Kerosene, by itself, would not explode. The coroner. Mr. F. K. Hunt, found that deceased had died from shock following upon burns received when his bach was burned down.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 218, 13 September 1940, Page 8
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