EXPLOSION AT FIREWORKS FACTORY
INQUEST (Hi VICTIM fPjtR United Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 18. Happenings on the afternoon of November 4, when Bickerton’s fireworks factory in Ottawa road was destroyed by an explosion and fire, were investigated to-day at an inquest held concerning the death of Miss Rosamond Venetta Roberts, who died following the explosion. . Tho manager of the fireworks factory, Ronald Malcolm Biekerton, said that girls in the employ of the factory had been given instructions that stock containers of stars of compositions must be kept outside. When he was present at the factory these instructions were always carried out, and he had no idea how stars came to be on the floor of the workshop. No definite instructions were given the' girls with regard to the footwear to be worn, he continued, and he did not know that the regulations under the Explosives and Dangerous Goods Act made it compulsory to wear suitable shoes. The inquest is proceeding.
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Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 9
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160EXPLOSION AT FIREWORKS FACTORY Evening Star, Issue 22525, 18 December 1936, Page 9
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