A BLASTING ACCIDENT.
TWO MEN INJURED. By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 30. The City Council's foreman reported that at 9.15 a.m. to-day a blasting accident occurred at the stone-crusher at Mount Eden. One of the men was loading a powder hole and while putting the powder down to the bottom of the hole with a tamping bar an explosion occurred A man named William Hears had his arms badly lacerated below the elbows. His right leg was also hurt. He was & _>nt to the hospital. Another man named Benjamin Smith had the back of his hand skinr.ed and his left arm burnt.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8499, 31 July 1907, Page 6
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102A BLASTING ACCIDENT. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8499, 31 July 1907, Page 6
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