NAIL POLISH EXPLODES
DAMAGE IN BEAUTY SALON
(PA.) AUCKLAND, August 14. An explosion occurred in Mary Stanner’s beauty salon, Vulcan Buildings, Vulcan lane, this afternoon, damaging the workroom and breaking two windows and a mirror in cubicles at the far end of the room. Fire followed the explosion. The brigade quickly extinguished the flames. A junior assistant, Margaret Patterson, aged 15, suffered burns on one leg. The explosion and fire were caused by a lighted match coming in contact with a large tin of nail polish, which an assistant was sealing with wax. When the explosion occurred the caretaker immediately left the lift he was operating and entered the salon where he kept the fire, which was burning fiercely, under control with buckets of water until the brigade arrived.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24954, 15 August 1946, Page 4
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