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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 206, 23 June 1914, Page 4

On a recent my lit at Raetihi, a you'll in search of a handful oi' carhide, struck a match over the aperture of a large drum of carbide, and immediately there followed a detonation which rent the drum vertically from top to bottom, scaltering the contents and tilling the small room with fumes. He was a dazed, but, fortunately, unharmed youth, who ..nine to himself some few minutes lator, about tea yards from tho gas house, having been hurled through the doorway which was providentially left open. The theory is that the dau.p .ir had operated upon the carbide, turning the space between surface and contents of drum into a gas chamber. To those who uso acetylene the incident is worth remembering.

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