Promontory To Go
To make way for a new highway, Pandora Point, a well known Napier promontory, is to be removed. A 60ft. tunnel has been bored into the hillside, and it is expected that the explosion will remove the entire 150 ft. face of the hill. Fifty cases of gelignite will be used, and the charge will be exploded electrically from behind the cliff face. Such is the situation of the hill that no damage can result to houses or buildings from the effect of the explosion.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 5
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88Promontory To Go Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 91, 7 February 1947, Page 5
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