“It is amazing, the lack of care taken by garage employees in all part? of the county when handling benzine,” said a Wanganui motorist who returned last week from an extensive motor tour of the Dominion. He referred, says an exchange, to the<j3practice of smoking while filling tanks with petrol and cleaning parts of vehicles with the inflammable spirit. “It is a wonder to me that more accidents do not occurr,” he remarked. “It only requires a spark to ignite benzine fumes and the damage is done.” The VV anganui man, who is a motorist. ot long experience, considers that smoking near exposed ben-, zine is the greatest risk a motorist could run.
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Northland Age, Volume 27, Issue 42, 28 October 1927, Page 4
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