KEROSENE EXPLOSION
(Per Press Association.) DARGAVILLE, this day. Early on New Year's morning two young men, Frank Cossill and Jim Hodges, were boiling a motor cycle chain in kerosene in a local factory. The kerosene caught fire. Hodges lifted 1 the tin to the door. When it became too hot he put it down and Cossill went to throw the tin outside. The kerosene exploded in his face. He was so severely burned, that he had to be sent to hospital. His eyes also are injured.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 8
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86KEROSENE EXPLOSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16230, 3 January 1927, Page 8
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