INQUEST INTO DEATH OF LABOURER
BURNS RECEIVED WHEN STOVE EXPLODED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 13. The danger of mixing petrol with kerosene for use in primus stoves was mentioned by Constable McKenzie and a store keeper, Henry George Carter, when giving evidence at the inquest into the death of William James Morris, a labourer, aged 52, who died in the Auckland hospital on August 28. The deceased lived in a bach at Palm Beach, Waiheke Island. The bach caught fire and was burned down on the night of August 24, the deceased, who was in the bach at the time, receiving severe burns. While waiting to be sent to hospital, the deceased, who was then conscious, said a primus stove had exploded. 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 the deceased must have used a mixture of petrol and kerosene and it had exploded. Kerosene by itself would not explode. The Coroner found that the deceased had died from shock following burns received when his bach was burned down.
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Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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188INQUEST INTO DEATH OF LABOURER Southland Times, Issue 24231, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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