DETONATOR IN SCHOOL

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2298, 17 November 1925, Page 7

DETONATOR IN SCHOOL

BOY’S HAND SHATTERED. SEVERE SHOCK FOR CHILDREN. The Taihape police received -word late on Friday night that a boy, Vivian Bakarat, aged 13 years and in standard IV., at the Raetihl Schoor, ‘ had been injured by the exploding of a detonator. « It appears that a number of Raetihl school boys organised a “trea. sure hunt,” in the course of which they discovered some 250 detonators in an old rusty tin hidden in a hollow tree on a Maori section. The boy# distributed the detonators among other children and some of them took them to school. On Friday after, noon, young Bakarat among others, was trying to fit one to a pencil when he hammered it to make it fit and the result was a terrifying explosion. Bakarat had three fingers blo\rti off one hand and sustained other injuries. He was removed to the Raetihi Hospital, where he is pro, greasing favourably. The other children suffered severely from shook, Tho accident had all the powlbUD, ties of tragedy and it stresses thO need for care in the disposal of u»* used detonators.