A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.
THE DANGER OF EXPLOSIVES. The danger of allowing children to handlp explosives of any description has eftpn been the subject cf warning, and a terrible accident, which yesterday hotel Elsie Cumins, the P/a-y ear-old daughter of a Mangoiate Tipi- iki) settler, is another instance f the necessity of extreme caution in hiking measures to ensure that iaxploivea should not be available to those n experienced in their use. Tb,c girl Cumins found some detonators, which her father used in conjuucMon with explosives for blasting stumps. Whilst playing with the detonators an explcfsion occurred and L he little sufferer sustained Terrible ’a. juries. Her right hand was blown ff and the injuries to her eyes were " •?.u r Ti a nature as to necessitate their •".mediate removal. The operation was successfully per>rmed immisdiately the patient arriv'd a( the Taihape Hospital last night. This morning she is doing as well as ■:;i bo expected.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 152, 2 March 1915, Page 4
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155A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 152, 2 March 1915, Page 4
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