CYCLIST AND CIGARETTE.
A COAT IN" FLAMES.
[BS TELEaBAPH. —OWN COB3ESPONDEN ) TE AROHA,, Wednesday. ' A startling experience befell tS,': Goldsbury, % Te Aroha youth, as he was cycling into town yesterday morning. He withdrew a cigarette butt from his mouth and, thinking that he had extinguished it, he placed it in his hip pocket. He bad not gone far, however, when he found that the butt had burned through his pocket and had come into contact with his coat, which, in ths breeze caused by ' fast travelling, burst into flames. The cyclist was not long in freeing hunselC from -7 the burning garment, which was left to smoulder c l the side of the road wh.le he continued his journey. \ \> .:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 10
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119CYCLIST AND CIGARETTE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18563, 22 November 1923, Page 10
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