EXPLOSION IN BOTTLE.
TWO BOYS CUT BY GLASS. ACCIDENT IN LABORATORY. [BY TELEGRArH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] STRATFORD, Saturday. While engaged in flame tests at th§ Stratford High School laboratory yesterday, a boy named Kingston Braybrooke placed a piece of hot. platinum wire in a bottle of he thought was calcium carbonate. An explosion occurred, and the glass bottle was blown to pieces. Braybrooke and another pupil, Geoffrey Keller, were cut about the head and arms. The boys were removed to hospital, and are progressing favourably.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21160, 18 April 1932, Page 8
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