CHILDREN BURNED
Batteries Explode (N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE. May 30. Two children suffered facial burns when a torch battery thrown beneath the grating of an open fire exploded, squirting a tar-like substance over them.
The 18-month-o!d baby of Mr and Mrs H. A. Cooper, of Dalrymple road, put the battery in the fireplace about 6.20 p.m. yesterday. The baby and Mr Cooper’s six-year-old son, some feet from the fire, were splashed about the face with the liquid. Both children were treated at hospital and allowed to return home. Some of the liquid had splashed into their eyes, but their sight was not affected.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 3
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