BOY LOSES FINGERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 71, 21 September 1936, Page 10

BOY LOSES FINGERS

ACCIDENT AT LYALL BAY

DETONATORS IN A FIRE

The explosion of one or more detonators when some boys were playing with them at Lyall,Bay at about 5 p.m. on Saturday resulted in Philip Truelove, a schoolboy, of 14 Seatoun Road, losing the first and third fingers of his right hand, and sustaining cuts about the hand and face. Maurice Mac Donald, another schoolboy, of 37 Palm Avenue, received superficial cuts. Truelove was taken to hospital by the Free Ambulance. One explanation of the accident is that the boys were playing.in the back yard of an unoccupied house in Puru Crescent, and found their way into the washhouse, the door of which was open. Inside they found a tobacco tin in which were some detonators. The tin was plainly marked that it contained detonators, and had Instructions on it that it should be handled carefully. However, the boys made a fire, and the detonators exploded. PREVENTION OF OLD AGE. Many, of the characteristic features of old age are directly traceable to a lowering of the activities of such glands as the thyroid, pituitary, and adrenal. Of these three the thyroid may be said to be the master gland. Recent researches have shown that' the thyroid can be activated by iodine in a special organic form, which is contained in . the latest scientific discovery, Thyrodone, sold by C. H. Perrett, E. T. Saunders, Ltd., U.F.S. Dispensary, and other chemists at 4s 6d.— Advt.