STUDENT HURT
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Feb. 24.
A man was injured today in an explosion which wrecked a second floor laboratory at Victoria University. The explosion, at 2 p.m., blew out all the laboratory windows, smashed fragile glass equipment inside drawers and cupboards, and filled the room with thick smoke and fumes.
One of two persons in the laboratory, Mr Ken McNatty, a graduate student, was cut on the head by flying glass. He ran from the room with another student. Miss Susan Parker, who was not hurt. Two Are engines rushed to the university and the small fire was quickly put out Mr McNatty was given first aid by a laboratory steward, and then taken to the Wellington Hospital. He was later sent home.
Miss Parker said she had gone to the laboratory to turn off a meter. “I came in and just as I turned off the meter, there was a shattering explosion,” she said. “I just ran for it. It hurt my eyes.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 14
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