A ship’s rocket, an empty shell, and two small boys at Nelson wiere responsible for a startling occurrence in Seymour Avenue last week. It was only by the merest chance that a tragedy was averted. Two lads, aged about 13; buried an empty a whizz-bank in which was inserted a ship’s rocket. The rocket exploded with a noise that was heard a mSJe away, arid the shell burst into a doztsn fragments, some of them being .inches long and about half an inch thick. The wall of the adjoining house received the full effect of the explosion, several pieces of shell going right through the wall into a bedroom which had just been vacated by its occupants. The boys watched proceedings froijn a neighbouring garage.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5482, 2 October 1929, Page 1
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