INJURED WHEN FILM EXPLODED IN FIRE
WELLINGTON, August 14. When George Earnshaw, aged 22, Buller Street, AVelling"to.n, was bui'ning rubbisli in the back yard of his home today, an explosion thrcw him 12 feet and hurut his face so hadly that lie is threatoned with the loss of the sighi of oue eye, He was also hurpt on his left hand nnd received shqck. The explosion was caused by .Japau e?e roU films which had been developed, r-qrolled tightly and returned tQ their liglit Uiatal containers. The expiqsiqij revorberated like the discharge pf a liig gun going oft'. It shook Earnshaw's two-stpreyed honse,
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1949, Page 5
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