INQUEST VERDICT
ON DISASTROUS AFFAIR.
By Telegraph—-Per Press Association.}
(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, July 23.
At an inquest into the death of fifteen Gillingham victims, the jui'y returned a verdict that death was due to misadventure, owing to the error of an unidentified person. It added a rider stating that human lives should not be risked for such displays.
The Coroner, summing up, said obviously the flares were fired in the wrong order. Fireman Cockayne, who perished, went back to assist the victims, although he knew it was certain death.
Fire-Lieut. Bines, in evidence, said when he saw the shavings alight near the combustibles, including oil, he ordered Fireman Nicholls to throw out the life lines from the second floor and get the boys out. Nicholls failed to reply. He was apparently already overcome. The whole thing was over in tour minutes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1929, Page 5
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145INQUEST VERDICT Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1929, Page 5
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