GELIGNITE EXPLOSION
MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED (By Telegraph—Press Association) AUCKLAND, This Day. The explosion of a charge of gelignite caued serious injuiry to Cecil Courtney, aged 32 years, single, at Hoeotainui, near Morrinsville, on Friday afternoon. The injured man was in a relief camp, and was employed with others in removing stumps from a swamp. He had inserted a charge of gelignite in a stump, and had then moved to a safe distance. As the charge did not explode within the prescribed.time he returned to investigate. He was in the act of withdrawing the gelignite when it exEloded. Both his eyes were injured and e was partially blinded. He suffered numerous small wounds on the face and chest, but none very deep. He also received laceration to the left arm and suffered severely from shock.
The injured man’s condition is fairly serious.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 7 April 1934, Page 7
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