GELIGNITE EXPLODES
MAN’S HAND AMPUTATED (Per Press Association.) GORE, Feb. 18. David Hughes received a shattered hand and head injuries and suffered •other wounds through the explosion of gelignite which he was using to mine 'lignite at Balfour yesterday. Hughes later had his hand amputated at the Gore Hospital. He was sent to Invercargill for the treatment of a damaged eye. His parents reside in South Dunedin.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19771, 19 February 1927, Page 7
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67GELIGNITE EXPLODES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19771, 19 February 1927, Page 7
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