EXPLOSION OF WHEAT DUST
an unusual happening YOUTH BURNED (United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SYDNEY, sth September. A youth was severely burned and a man hurled ten feet by an explosion of wheat dust in silos near Parkes. This >s tlie first explosion of the kind -to have occurred in Australia The Department of Agriculture chemist states that fine wheat dust floating in the air will explode in a maimer similar to gas.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 September 1935, Page 4
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73EXPLOSION OF WHEAT DUST Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 September 1935, Page 4
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