BURNS PROVE FATAL
Mr. C. McDonald, a factory hand, of Maupuia Road, Miramar, whose clothes caught fire on Friday while he was working in the Eruptite explosives factory, died in hospital yesterday from the burns that he received. His clothes had become covered with chlorate of potash. At about noon,he went into the street, where a spark from a cigarette is believed to have ignited his clothing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 149, 27 June 1938, Page 12
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67BURNS PROVE FATAL Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 149, 27 June 1938, Page 12
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