KEROSENE EXPLODES
CHILD DIES FROM BURNS. (By Telegraph —Press Association.) WHANGAREI, August 22. When a Maori child, a daughter of Mrs Pataua Manukau, of Hukatere, was lighting a fire a bottle of kerosene which she was using exploded. Her clothes were saturated with the spirit, which caught fire and burned her so badly that she died in Te Kopuru hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 2
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