Appointment Missed

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32164, 6 December 1969, Page 1

Appointment Missed

N.Z. Press Association AUCKLAND, Dec. 5. The fuse of a 1919 aerial bomb caused a minor stir at the Museum of Transport and Technology today and caused a schoolboy to miss his dental appointment The fuse, said by an Army expert to be capable of causing severe injuries, was found by Llewellyn Thorp, aged 14, of Elliott Street, Riverhead, three weeks ago as he searched for a missing lawnmower part under his house. This morning Llewellyn

decided to hand it in at the museum on his way to a dental appointment On one occasion after Its discovery a neighbour of Llewellyns tried to dismantle the fuse but gave up when he saw what looked like a cartridge inside it When Mrs B. V. Barton, a receiving clerk at the museum, heard the story of the cartridge she rang the police who told the Army. While arrangements were made to get a bomb disposal expert to the museum it became too late for Llewellyn’s dental appointment The expert found the

fuse safe enough to bo «■« it was token to the Northern Military District depot by police car. An Army apokesman said today that anyone having similar iteasa la their posMjrion should mt tamper with them but should tell the Army through their local police station. “Age can make ammunition Inert but can also make certain types of explosives more sensitive.” The 1918 fuse, he said, wu almost in factory condition apart from some superficial marks on the outside.