ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION. [Per Press Association.] Dunedin, April 1. Thomas Mee, employed on the Gatlins river railway, was admitted to .the hospital , to-day, suffering from severe burns. He accidentally throw a lighted match into some powder, and was at once enveloped in flames. He is suffering severely from shock. A CYCLING FATALITY. . Timaru, April, 1. Mr P., Dickson, a clerk in the njonoy department of the Timaru Post Office, while ‘ cycling into town to-night, col- , lided, with a motor car driven by its owner, Mr C. Besley, and sustapied a severe' -scalp wound. He' t >vas taken to a private hospital''in an unconscious state, and died shortly admission. He was on the wrong side; of the road, and did not turn off till hear the car, which turneffj off to avoid him at the same time, and a collision occurred. Dickson >.was .married, blit had no family.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 2
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149ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 72, 2 April 1913, Page 2
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