DETONATORS IN STOVE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 13

DETONATORS IN STOVE

Mother Badly Burned CHILDREN’S BEACH FINED Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, November 22. Arising out of theft charges in the Children’s Court against two boys, it was learnt that the lads had broken into a shed in which detonators were stored. They stole two tins of detonators, which one of them took home. Subsequently the detonators were'thorwn on the foreshore of the harbour, and some other children, thinking they were pencil tops, picked them up and took them home. There the element of danger was introduced, for not knowing what they were the mother threw them on the stove, the top of which was blown off. The woman was considerably burned. .... „ The police informed the court that an the detonators had not been recovered. Comment was made by the court on the fact that such dangerous articles should have been left apparently in a place to which children had such easy access. The police said they had interviewed the proprietor of the place in which the detonators were stored, and arrangements had now been made for them to be more securely housed.