TELEGRAMS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1920, Page 1

TELEGRAMS

I PISH FP.USS ASSOCIATION’.- COPYRIGHT | AN AIR PLIGHT. PALMERSTON N., July 31. The first aeroplane arrived hero today. The Wash brothers, on a Do Haviland machine flew from Dannevirke. on route to Wellington and are remaining hero several, days. They arc taking passengers for (lights. cinema machine explodes. C H RISTCH l' R CIT, .1 uly 31. By the explosion of a child's kinoma tograph and the ’ oxpl.bsion igniting several films on the floor, a boy of sixteen years named Eric Billons, and a girl of seventeen named Bessie Dunshea, received severe bums on their faces and bodies and were admitted -to the hospital. The hoy was showing the films on the wall in the bedroom of his mother’s house at Sydenham. He was running off the films that were scattered about the floor when the machine burst into flames. A younger brother heard cries and rushed to the door where he met te girl coming out. He had thrown a couple of buckets of water over the flames when he heard groans in the corner of the room and discovered his brother on the bed. The mother, who had been out in the yard rushed in and rescued her son but was burned about the face in doing so. The boy was much more badly burned than the girl.