TWO MEN INJURED
MATCH DROPPED ON BLASTING POWDER i J , I United Prom* Amorist font ? INVERCARGILL. 12th December. > Edward R. Carstensen and Arthur J I Hamilton, two Public Works Depart j ment employees, received extensive I burns at Stewart Island to-day whet ) blasting powder was ignited by a mate! > and exploded. » The match was dropped on soim r blasting powder lying on the grounc near an almost full tin and it ignited I causing the whole tin to explode. Th< men were extensively burnt on th< * r.rms and legs, a good deal of the skir ■ being destroyed. The men were taken across Fovea us Strait by the Rr.kiura, which made tin crossing in the fast time of two hour* 125 minutes. They were admitted tr ; the Southland hospital.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 13 December 1938, Page 7
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