From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1963
Hongkong, April 8
An eight-year-old girl was severely burned when a flaming kerosene stove, hurled from a police van, set her clothes on fire. She was taken to Queen Mary Hospital with burns to 30 per cent of her body. Her condition was described as 'fair'.
The accident happened when one of two stoves impounded by police when they arrested two unlicensed cooked-food sellers burst into flames in the back of the police van. Police had blown on both wicks to extinguish them, but when flames began to leap inside the van, a corporal picked up the stove and hurled it into the roadway.
Canberra, April 8
Australia will switch to decimal coinage in February 1966. Mr Harold Holt, the Federal Treasurer, said the major unit would equal 10 present shillings and would be divided into 100 parts, each equal to 1.2 pence. An authority would be set up later this year to examine questions such as the denomination of major monetary units, the size of banknotes and the metallic content of the coinage. The present currency would cease to be legal tender at the end of 1967.
Nassau, April 8