DETONATORS AS GIFTS.
DISTRIBUTED BY SCHOOLBOY. ANXIETY AT CAMBRIDGE. DISCOVERY MADE IN TIME. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CAMBRIDGE. Thursday. Consternation was caused in Cambridge yesterday by the discovery that a pupil of the District High School had found a number of detonators and distributed them to classmates, the children being innocent of the deadly nature of the small gifts. Investigation resulted in the recovlrv of 18 detonators. One lad was using one as a pencil cover. Another boy had been chewing a detonator, the case showing unmistakable teeth marks.
Warnings were promptly issued. Many serious accidents have occurred from timeto time through detonators being exploded. In most cases the accidents have happened from gross carelessness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 10
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115DETONATORS AS GIFTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19471, 29 October 1926, Page 10
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