BOVS FINGER BLOWN OFF BY CHRISTMAS CRACKER.
It is not easy for a youngster to talk when his finger is missing, but little Douglas Mott, aged ten, who had his little finger blown off by a large cracker on Christmas Day, said seriously to-day: “I’m glad there are to be no more crackers, and I’ll never touch one again.” Douglas lives at 17, Y r oelas Road, Lyttelton, and is expecting to go home to-day. “It was a funny cracker,” he said. “It was one of those slow-burning, long-wicked ones, and I thought that it had gone out and then suddenly it went off.”
It was his first cracker for the year and his last, but he is sticking to it like a man, and reckons that as it is done and cannot be replaced, he is going to be happy.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19267, 2 January 1931, Page 3
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