PREMATURE EXPLOSION.
FARMER LOSES TWO FINGERS. [by telegraph. OWN CORRESPONDENTS. 1 HAMILTON, Thursday. While engaged in removing tree stumps with the aid of explosives on his farm at Otorohanga to-day, Mr. Cyril Birchall, aued 45, lost two fingers of his left hand through the premature explosion of a detonator. He was admitted to the Waikato Hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19761, 7 October 1927, Page 12
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