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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 118, 16 February 1928, Page 12

An expert in the handling of explosives asks that in the public interest attention be called to the danger of playing with detonators that may be left lying about near a quarry (states the Dunedin "Star”). Several children in Australia have been recently injured meddling with these things, and mishaps of that sort should be guarded against in New Zealand. Curiosity as to detonators is to some extent pardonable in youngsters because a detonator looks jusj: the same ns a small size brass cap for a lead pencil when it is not being used, or perhaps more closely represents the little brass cylinder sometimes included in school pencil cases which hold sticks of lead for refills in pencils. But, in spite of its simplicity, its power for dealing death or mutilation to the utl suspecting is immense. Detonators are made in eight sizes. So small arc the evlinders and the weight of their de structive content that 5000 of the largest size detonators weigh only 761 b, and 10,000 of the smaller size .weigh Slits.