MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
CHILDRENS’ EXPERIENCE. . Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, March 10. Two children, aged five and six, had a miraculous escape yesterday. They were playing in' a right-of-way leading to a drug company’s premises. One of the children is believed to have lit a match near the bung hole of a drum, which was afterwards found to contain methylated spirits. An explosion followed, the lid b£ing blown off with such violence as to make a hole a foot deet> in the ground. The children suffered only minor injury.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 88, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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87MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 88, 11 March 1930, Page 2
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