PERIL OF FLANNELETTE.
"OUIiHT TO BE MADE A CRIME- TO WEAR IT." By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, December 30. At the inquest this -morning concerning the death of Annie Ewart, aged It!, of Owaka, wiho died last night from burns received on May l(i, after a painful illness, the evidence showed that while sitting in- a flannelette nightdress a spark from a wood fire ignited the garment. The Coroner (Mr. Graham-) said, inj recording the verdict, that in vievjjM the large number of cases nelette-was responsible for fatal SuriM
it might almost to be -made a crimj to wear flannelette in any circumstances.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 191, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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102PERIL OF FLANNELETTE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 191, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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