FLANNELETTE.
A little four-year-old son of a Mr Price, in Hamilton, when playing with a box of safety matches set fire to his flannelette nightgown, and was so severely burnt that he died in the hospital about five hours later. The coroner, Mr Mason, in addressing the jury at the inquest, said that this was another case where flannelette had been the actual cause of the accident. The material was entirely misnamed ; there being not a particle of flannel in the stuff at all. It was simply raised cotton, and the authorities in England were compelling the manufacturers to sell the material under that name owing to the appalling loss of infant Hie caused through the use of flannelette. The speaker contended that It was time steps were taken in New Zealand to stop the practice of selling this material under the name of flannelette, which was entirely misleading. The jury returned a verdict ip accordance with the medical evidence, attaching no blame to anyone, and added a rider condemning the use of flanuelette, and asking the authorities to see that the material be sold as raised cotton,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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188FLANNELETTE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1020, 7 November 1912, Page 4
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