DANGERS OF TGRESHING WHEAT.
CiiKisinn'iuMi, May 5. A !:m\KK\iii. instance ot spontaneouslum'iion occuiied the othci da v \ m a threshing machine opeiating upon oome wheat stacks on a iaun near Ambet ley, levcaling a lulneito uninspected .source of danger. TJio wheat updated on was \ cry foul with smut, which it c.\n onl % > be inferred is under eeiimn uonclitum^ highly inliammable, and was probably in this eat>c the immediate cause of the accident. One ot the hands at work behind the tiddle say.s that a .sudden llabh of lire oxoipovu'ied him, •»in^cinji lv*> taee, but un.iecDinpanied by any noisi', tavc a pufV. The iceder lv -ew nothing ot it until he saw the.stiaw ascending the elevatou^ in llamcs which almost in^t.intl^ cm eloped the t-tiaw htaulv. The .straw and unthrc&hecl aiain were con.sitined, hut* the damage to the threshing plant was not serious.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 262, 9 May 1888, Page 4
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142DANGERS OF TGRESHING WHEAT. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 262, 9 May 1888, Page 4
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