EXPLOSION AT GAS WORKS
MAN BADLY BURNED [Per Press Association. —Copyright.] BLENHEIM, This Day. A minor explosion at the Blenheim gas works just before 11 a.m. today wrecked the testing room, and a subsequent fire destroyed a number of instruments. Mr Glencoe Tatchett, who was employed in testing, received plainful and extensive burns ,to the face, head and arms.
The works manager, Mr J. Watt, who was entering the room at the time, was blown back into the yard T lire brigade quickly put out the; fh ::nd the damage is not extensive,
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1936, Page 5
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