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AsK from Cigarette TWO YOUNG MEN BURNED
(By Telegrap)
TIMARU, Last Night. Two men, William Eose'and William Gould, both 19, years of age, were extonsively burned about the face when a ■box of blasting powder exploded. The men were engaged in blasting trees at Hazelburn when one flicked ash from a ■ cigarette and about 14 pounds of powder exploded. Both 'are in hospital but are making' good ' progress.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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