WETBACK EXPLODES
Four Women
Injured
(N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, June 10.
Four women were injured, one seriously, laite last night when a wet-back hot water container at the back of a fireplace exploded in a house at 35 Pitt street, Wanganui. A neighbour living more than 100 yards away said the explosion sounded like “a 25pounder shell going off." Seriously injured was Miss Edith Box, aged 20, oi Wanganui. She was operated on early this morning at Wanganui. Hospital for severe injuries to a leg. The other women, Mrs Jean Willis, aged 27, Mrs Delphina Fox. aged 31. and Mrs Doreen Takaraugi, aged 24. were also admitted to the hospital with cuts and shock. Pieces of masonry weighing more than a hundredweight were blasted across the room by the explosion. A sheet of steel slashed through the room and embedded itself i-n the opposite wall. Windows in the room were blown out and curtains and blinds were shredded by the dying blast. Two other people in the room and a baby in an adjoining room escaped injury.
What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading —Alice James.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30154, 11 June 1963, Page 8
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