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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21086, 10 February 1934, Page 24

AUCTIONS. H. MATSON AND CO. f'-*-lieve they inserted the article below in their column about 1929, but consider it is well worthy of reproduction. BROKE. 'From the Royal Bank of Canada (Bulletin.) The following reply sent by a harassed householder to a creditor will awaken a responsive echo in many hearts:— "I wish to inform you that the present shattered condition of my • __.,_ i l-~~ it imnnaciMa fnr "My present financial condition is cine to the effects of Federal laws, Provincial laws, County laws, by-laws, brother-in-laws, mother-in-laws, and outlaws that have been foisted upon an unsuspecting public. Through these various laws. I have been held down, held up, walked on. sat on, flattened, find squeezed until I do not know where I am, what I am, or why I am. 'These laws compel me to pay a fnerchant's tax, capital tax, stock tax, excess tax, income tax, real estate tax, property tax, water tax, light tax, ftreet tax, and car net tax. •■ln addition to these taxes I am requested and required to contribute to every society and organisation that the inventive mind of man can organise. "The Government has so governed my business that I do not know who owns it lam suspected, expected, inspected, examined, re-examined, informed, required, commanded, and compelled until all I know is that I am supposed to provide an inexhaustible supply of money for every known need, desire, or hope of the human race, and because I refuse to give to all and go out and beg, borrow, and steal money to give away, I am cussed and discussed, boycotted, talked to. talked about, lied to and lied about, held up, held down, and robbed, until I am nearly ruined, so the only reason I am clinging to life is to see what on earth is coming next." BLOW-FLY TRAPS I BLOW-FLY TRAPS 1 BLOW-FLY TRAPS j PRICE 9/6 EACH PRICE 9/6 EACH PRICE 9/6 EACH SPECIAL REDUCTIONS FOR 3 OR MORE. DO NOT BE WITHOUT ONE ON YOUR FARM. H. MATSON and CO., SELLING AGENTS. (Extract from the "Christchurch Star.") PILLAR OF FIRE. FARM LABOURER FATALLY BURNED. SODIUM CHLORATE DANGER. (Special to the "Star.") HAWERA, February 1. To '-ee her husband a pillar of flame was the terrifying experience Mrs Stephen Dains related at the inquest at Hawcra concerning the death of her husband. Mr Dains, a farm labourer, aged 54, with four children, lived at Tirimoana, near Eltham. and died in the Hawera Hospital, having been severely burned by the ignition of some sodium chlorate. Her husband, said Mrs Dains, had been spraying ragwort and without changing 'his. clothes dug his garden. About 8.45 p.m. witness went to bed, and a few minutes later her husband followed her into the bedroom, saying he would light a candle to see if the baby was all right. Mr Dains struck a match, but the head came off and fell on the knee of his trousers. Mrs Dains heard a hissing noise, and in a moment her husband was enveloped in flames, so high and fierce that it seemed the whole ioom was alight. She saw him beat his blazing clothes with his hands, and then he ran out of the room. Mrs Dains seized a coat to wrap round him, and followed him out of the room. As her husband fumbled with the lock of the door witness attempted io wrap the coat round him, but he pushed her away. Having opened the dcor he ran outside. Aided by a relative who was staying in the house, witness poured water over him and then took off what remained of his clothes. She telephoned Dr. Crawford, who came at once from Eltham and attended Mr Dains until the ambulance arrived from Hawera. Dr. E. S. Fossey, of the Hawera Hospital, said that when he examined Mr Dains on admission he found from two-thirds to three-quarters of his entire body surface burned. The lower part was badly affected, while the hands were so severely burned as to be black and clawlike. As a result of treatment Mr Dains rallied a little, but witness had not had much hope of his surviving. Sergeant Henry quoted from a Department of Agriculture circular as follows:—"Sodium chlorate, on dry clothes, is liable to burst into flames with great rapidity, as soon as a spark, blow, or friction is applied at any one spot. The heating of clothing by coming too near a fire, even without actual contact with a spark or flame, may cause a garment to catch fire or explode." Recording a finding in accordance with the evidence, the coroner, Mr R. S. Sage, emphasised the need of taking every possible precaution when dealing with sodium chlorate. ALGERIAN OATS ALGERIAN OATS BLACK BARLEY BLACK BARLEY CAPE BARLEY CAPE BARLEY ■ We have first-quality seed of ! both Machine-dressed and Farm- ! ers'-dressed and will be pleased | to quote your requirements. ]' H. MATSON and CO., I GRAIN MERCHANTS. H. MATSON and CO.