SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA.
'FATHER CHRISTMAS" BURNED
TO DEATH.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received December 27, 12.8 a.m.) Sydney, December 26. Wardsman Rooke, while representing Father Christmas at festivities at Wyalong Hospital to-day, was burnt to death through his clothes coining in contact with a lamp.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13370, 27 December 1906, Page 5
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45SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13370, 27 December 1906, Page 5
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