ACCIDENTS
SCHOOLBOY’S DEATH LAMP EXPLODES IN FACE When an acetylene lamp exploded while he was playing with it on Saturday morning a 15-year-old schoolboy suffered injuries from which he dtad about a quarter of an hour later. The boy, who was a pupil of St Bede's College, was: Daniel ‘Bernard Galvin, whose father is Mr D. A. Galvin, of 12 Mathiai street, St. Albans. It is thought that the boy Was attempting to clear an obstruction frrtb the lamp's jet by blowing into it wMj the lamp blew up and the jet entered his mouth and became lodged in h» throat. The accident happened at tin boy’s home about 10 a.m. An inquest for identification pur" poses will be opened at the Public Hospital this afternoon. YOUNG MAN KILLED TRUCK OVERTURNS (New Zealand Press Association) . MASTERTON. August 3t A freezing worker received fatal injuries when a truck in which he war riding overturned on the main Master-ton-Castle Point highway at Te ON Ore late yesterday afternoon. He was Paul Karaitiana, aged 25. Both Karaitiana and Edwin H®' mer. the other occupant, were pinned under the truck, which was extensively damaged. Karaitiana was taken to the Masterton Hospital where he died two houn later. Harmer suffered concussion aM was allowed to go home.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26510, 27 August 1951, Page 6
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