Blasting' Of Rocks: Three Charges On Reef This Morning
Westerly weather that had made the harbour entrance too choppy for the Navy’s blasting operations to be carried on since the first charge was fired on Tuesday subsided yesterday and, following a survey yesterday afternoon, three depth charges were used against the outcrop from the inner right-hand beacon on the way out this morning.
First blast was ‘‘double-header”, "two charges having been roped together and straddled across the reef. The third charge was placed further out into the channel. Though it was impossible to guage "the full effects so soon after the explosion, Mr R. E. Ansley, who was in charge of th'e operations, expressed the opinion that some improvement would have been achieved, though the flat-topped outcrop was -a tougher proposition to shift'than the pinnacles previously tackled. ’The Naval party leaves for Auckland today in the Fisheries Patrol launch.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 11, 22 October 1948, Page 5
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