MAN KILLED BY EXPLOSION IN HOME WORKSHOP
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, October 16.
A married man was killed instantly at his home in Northcote on Saturday afternoon, when a home-made acetylene recharging outfit exploded. He was Maurice Victor Wallace, aged 44, a transport driver employed by the New Zealand Railways. He lived at Beach road, Sulphur Beach, Northcote.
Wallace was working in a small workshop at the rear of his house when the accident occurred. He was generating acetylene gas for a home welding apparatus by forcing gas under pressure into a steel bottle from a small steel generating bottle. Raw carbide had been placed in a small bottle, which was connected by hoses to a water supply and to a larger holding bottle. It is thought that as Wallace was bending over the set one of the connections blew off and the small bottle exploded in his face.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 3
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