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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 167, 16 July 1937, Page 9

Two persons were injured and a kitchen was wrecked when an explosion occurred at tlio homo of Mrs. Hatch, in Revell Street Hokitika, last week. Mrs. Creagh and her son Gerard wero sitting in front of the stove. Mrs. Creagh was preparing breakfast when, without warning, a terrific explosion occurred. The stove was blown to pieces, a portion of the oven door was hurled through the doorway into an adjoining room, and the walls of the kitchen were plastered with fragments of tho stove. Kitchen cooking utensils, a kettle of boiling water, and a pot of porridge were blown to pieces and the contents blown over Mrs. Creagh and her son. Mrs. Creagh was making toast at the time. The son Gerard was badly burned and suffered scalding, being removed to tho Westland Hospital. Mrs. Creagh received nasty wounds on the head, neck, arms and legs, requiring several stitches and dressing. Tho cause of the explosion is believed to be due to a plug of gelignite in the coal, and from the extensive damage and .report a cap must have been in the plug.

In the opinion of an essayist, auto-graph-hunters are quite as boastful as anglers. We can imagine them cornering acquaintances and giving them graphic accounts of the celebrities who only just managed to get away.