PETROL-KEROSENE
By Telegraph—Press Association.
CAUSE OF EXPLOSION?
Auckland, Last Night. The * danger of mixing petrol with kerosene for use in primus stoves was mentioned by Constable McKenzie and a storekeeper, Mr. Henry George Carter, when giving evidencq at an inquest into the death of William James Morris, a labourer, aged 52, who died in the Auckland hospital on August 28. Morris lived in a bach at Palm Beach, Waiheke Island. The bach caught fire and was burned down cn the night of August 24, Morris, who was in the bach at the time, receiving severe burns, While waiting to be sent to hospital, Morris, who was then conscious, said the 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 Morris must have usecl a mixture of petrol and kerosene and it had exploded. Kerosene by ltself would not explode. | The coroner found that Morris had | died from shock following upon burns j received when his bach was burned I down.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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