BLASTING POWDER EXPLODES
TWO MEN SERIOUSLY BURNT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, September 7. An explosion of blasting powder occurred in the Farmers’ Trading Company’s store at Wellsford this afternoon, and two men, Mr R. Brocklehurst, Wellsford, and Mr J. C. Geldard, railway employee. New Lynn, were seriously burnt. Mi’ Brocklehurst, who is an assistant in the store, was weighing out some blasting powder, when it suddenly exploded and he and his customer receiving the full force. They were brought to the Auckland Hospital. A good deal of damage was done to the building, the front door being blown out and two. skylights damaged, while the stock, scales, cash register and counters also suffered extensively. Fire also broke out, but was soon extinguished by a biucket brigade.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1939, Page 2
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