DEATH FROM BURNS
Accident While Cleaning Stove By Telegraph.—Press Association. Hamilton, January 14. The death occurred in the Waikato Hospital on Saturday afternoon of Mrs. Elizabeth Skinner, aged 51 years, as the result of extensive burns on her body. She suffered terribly when at her home in Morrinsville on Thursday her clothes were ignited by a rag saturated with kerosene which caught fire when she was cleaning the stove. She was enveloped in flames, which her sou extinguished with a sack. He was burned about the arms in doing so, but was not seriously hurt.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 2
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95DEATH FROM BURNS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 94, 15 January 1935, Page 2
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