KEROSENE EXPLODES INJURING YOUNG MAN.
FACE AND SHOULDER BADLY BURNED. Per Press Association. DARGAVILLE, January 3. Early on New Year’s morning two young men, named Frank Cossill and Jim Hodges, were boiling a motorcycle chain in kerosene, in a local factory. The kerosene caught fire, and Hodges lifted the tin to the door. When it got too hot he put it down, and Cossill went to throw the tin outside. The kerosene exploded in his face and over his shoulder. He was so severely burned that he had to be sent to the hospital. Ilis eyes arc also injured.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18044, 3 January 1927, Page 1
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