WHANGAREI INQUEST.
Per Press Association. WHANGAREI, July 29. An inquest concerning the death of Harry Pirihi, farmer, Takahiwai, aged 30, who died following an explosion, concluded to-day. . The evidence showed that a tin of detonators was placed near the back door of the place where Pirihi and another man were baching. Pirihi, with a lighted brand in his band, left the kitchen to light rubbish two chains away. Immediately he went out of the door there was a tremendous explosion. It was considered that an ember from the biand dropped into the tin of detonators. The coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. |
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 8
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103WHANGAREI INQUEST. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 30 July 1937, Page 8
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