CHILDREN AND DETONATORS
TOP OF STOVE BLOWN OFF. WOMAN’S UNWITTING ACTION. Dunedin, Nov. 2?. As .a result of charges of theft preferred against tvyo boys in the Children’s Court, it was learned that -the lads broke into a shed in which detonators were .stored. They 'stole two tins of detonators, which one of them took home. Subsequently the detonators were thrown on the foreshore of the harbour and some other children, thinking they were pencil tops, picked them up" and took them home. Not knowing what they were, the mother of the children threw them on the stove, the top of which was blown, off. The woman was considerably, burned. . . ; • Comment was made by the magistrate on the fact that such dangerous articles should have been left apparently in a place to which children had such easy access. The police said they had interviewed the proprietor of the place in which the detonators were stored, and arrangements had been made for them .'to be more securely housed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1930, Page 7
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