PHOTOGRAPHER INJURED
FLASHLIGHT POWDER EXPLODES. (Per Press Association.'; 'Wellington, Nov B, While preparing to take a. flashlight photograph of the crowd at the. election results display board, A. W. Schaef wa& seriously injured through a premature explosion of the flashlight powder, and had to be sent to hospital. His assistant, E. F. Robs on (“was also injured, but not seriously, and was able to complete the work. The men were standing on the roof of the build|mg adjoining His Majesty’s Theatre, and the windows of tin; bach of them were shattered by the explosion. A similar experience, fortunately unattended with serious confluences, befell another man taking an election crowd flashlight.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9027, 5 November 1925, Page 5
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