EXPLOSION IN SHOP.
■ GAS FROM FUSING OF CABLE. COURT AWARDS £l9O DAMAGES. [BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Thursday. In the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. .Justice Sim and a special jury Daniel Lankford Smith, hospital attendant, and his wife, Annie Smith, claimed £239 16s 6d damages from the City Corporation for injuries sustained by Mrs. Smith as the result of an explosion in a shop in George Street in October, 1925. After a retirement of about half an hour the jury found that the accident was the result of an explosion of bitumen gas formed from the fusing and heating of an electric cable in George Street, and that two corporation employees were negligent in taking a naked light into the cellar of the shop. Mrs. Smith was awarded £l6O and Smith £3O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 15
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