SECOND DEATH WHEN GAS TAP LEFT ON
-Press Assocmtion
By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, June 22. ! Failure to turn off' a gas jet after the supply had been cut o'ff at tlre ,gas works, was the cause of a second death; by g-as poisoniiig within two days at Ponsonby during the weekend. The lat-. est victim was R-ic-hard -D. Francis Hammond, aged 51, labourer, of Ponsonby. , flammond, who liv-ed -alone in a room in an a.partment -house, was found dead , i-n bed by another tenant who called to; 'deliver a paper on Saturday morning.: The d'oor was -closed but not -locked and the room smelt strongly of gas. A j'et, 011 the g'as st'ove in a small attached alcov-e, was half turned on. The meter on the stove was a sliilling in the sl'oti fcype and the gas supph' was exhausted. I11 the Pohsom'by district the supply is ihut off at 7 o'clock at night and is turned on at 5 'o'clock in the morning abont two and a half hours before -Hani-1 mond was found. The only window in his room was shut. A11 elderly woman, Mrs. Eva Barnett, died on Friday in simi'lar eireumstanees in a small ba-ch i-n which she lived alone at Ponsonby.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 June 1947, Page 5
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