FINGERS BLOWN OFF.

Shannon News, 27 November 1925, Page 3

FINGERS BLOWN OFF.

♦ —- ACCIDENT TO SCHOOLBOY. .. TAIHAPE, Nov. 20. Tlie locAl police have received word that a boy, Vivian Bakarat, aged 13 years, and in Standard IV. at the Baetihi School, has been injured by the exploding of a detonator. It, appears that'a number of ltaetilii school boys organised a “treasure hunt” in the course of ’which they discovered soiue*2so detonators in an old rusty tin hidden in a hollow tree on a Maori section. The boys distributed the detonators among other children and some of them took them to school. On Friday afternoon, young Bakarat among others, was trying to fit one on to a pencil when lie hammered it to’ make it fit and the result was a terrifying .explosion. Bakarat had three fingers blown oft. one hand and sustained other injuries. He was removed to the Raetihi Hospital, where he is progressing favourably. The .other children suffered severely from shock. The accident had all the possibilities of tragedy and it stresses, the need for care in the disposal of unused detonators.