ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17283, 26 September 1916, Page 9

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

ACETYLENE EXPLOSION. A sixteen-year-old lad named Oliver Ewings, residing .at 100,.: Antigua Street, Sydenham, was admitted to the Hospital yestt'idny" suffering '■' "from' severo injuries to his left arm. He had been experimenting With acetylene gas, using a kerosene tin as a container. The gas exploded, and Ewings was'cut, by a fragment of the tin. He was treated in the" out-patients' department.

FARM LABOURER'S DEATH. [P*;r Pkess Association.] DUNEDIN, September .25. A farm labourer, named 'W; F. Johnstone, employed by Mr P. Sim at Crookston,'committed Buicido by hanging himself with a piece, of !,fencing wire in an unoccupied hut, which he set on fire before taking:his Hie. When Mr Sim wept to investigate the wniH, wore, falling in'and the body was much burned'. Apparently decoased, who had been in the district only a few months, previously had .been an inmate of a menial hospital/ ' ,