CHEMICAL IGNITES
MAN SEVERELY BURNED SPARK FROM CIGARETTE CLOTHES ALIGHT IN STREET [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] "WELLINGTON, Friday Severe burns to the body, arms and legs and shock were suffered by a factory hand, Mr. C. McDonald, Mapuia Road, Miramar, when his clothes caught fire in Park Road, Miramar, at about noon to-day. Mr. McDonald had been working in an explosives factory in Park Road and his clothes had become covered in chlorate of potash. Later he went on to the street/ where a spark from a cigarette ignited his clothing. A free ambulance took him to hospital.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 17
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98CHEMICAL IGNITES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23073, 25 June 1938, Page 17
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