SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
BOY AND GIRL BADLY BURNED. | (Per Press Association.) I CHRISTCHURCH. July 31. By the explosion of a child's kinematograph and the explosion igniting several films on the floor, a boy [of sixteen, named Eric Billens, and a girl of seventeen. Bessie Dunshea, l received severe burns on their faces land bodies, and were admitted to the 'hospital. The boy was showing the films on the wall of a bedroom in his mother's house at Sydenham. He was running off films thtat were scattered about the floor when the machine burst into flames. A younger brother heard cries and rushed to the door, where he met the girl 'coming out. He had to throw a couple of buckets of water over the flames when he heard groans in the corner and discovered his brother on the bed. The mother, who had been out in the yard, rushed in and rescued her son. but was burned about the face in doing so. The boy was much (more badly burned than the girl
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17936, 2 August 1920, Page 4
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