FOUR SUFFER BURNS
SPIRIT POURED ON STOVE fPia United Pasts Association.] GISBORNE, April 1. Four persons were injured by burning methylated spirit on Saturday, when a Maori woman at Whangara poured the liquid on a patent stove in the belief that the flame had expired. The blazing spirit reached an infant in arms and another woman, and burned both extensively, while another woman who attempted to extinguish the flames also incurred injuries.
The fire was finally extinguished by a man, who wrapped the victims in a rug. Mrs Ann Williams and Beatrice Jones and the baby King are in hospital, but all are reported to be improving. Mrs King was treated at home fpr a burned hand and arm.
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Evening Star, Issue 21993, 1 April 1935, Page 8
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