DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 13. The danger of mixing petrol with kerosene for use in primus stoves was mentioned by Constable McKenzie and it, store-keeper, Henry George Carter, when giving evidence at an inquest into the death of William James Morris, labourer, aged 52, who died in the Auckland Hospital on August 28. Constable McKenzie said that when he searched the debris after the fire he found a partly-melted primus stove without a filter cap on. He thought Mr Morris must have used a mixture of petrol and kerosene, and it had exploded. Kerosciio by itself would not explode.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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102DANGEROUS PRACTICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 16 September 1940, Page 3
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