DANGERS OF BENZINE.
MAN SEVERELY BURNED. DANNEVIRKE. July 28. While lighting the fire in the kitchen range this morning. T. S. Berry, a perk butcher, by mistake used benzine for kerosene. An explosion followed, setting fire to Berry’s clothes, and also to the papered walls. Berry, with the lower portion of his apparel well alight, seized his little child and rushed outside. After discarding his burning clothing he returned and extinguished the blaze. He now is in hospital, badly burned about the legs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 10
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83DANGERS OF BENZINE. Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 10
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