BOY FATALLY INJURED
Auckland, Nov.. 30. Fatal injuries were suffered by a schoolboy yesterday afternoon when gunpowder witn which he was experimenting exploded. Two boys who were with him escaped injury. The victim of the accident was Bruce Thomas Orr, aged 14, of Greenlarie. The boy had gone ,o a house in Wheturangi Road with two friends and they were mixing gunpowder shortly after 5 o’clock when the mixture exploded. The blast severed the main artery in the boy s neck.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 1 December 1945, Page 5
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