Mine Exploded
With an explosion which / e T v rated over the whole Bay Of s a area, the floating mine which was nff sighted off Tapeka Point at the norw end of the Russell peninsula on sun day evening, was destroyed on Braiw ton reef by a Navy and Army born disposal squad yesterday after "°? h . The blast shook Russell like an e^ rl quake, and the sound was hearo » far distant as Otehei Bay. The nu went ashore at Brampton reef, ano five miles north of Waitangi, at nig tide late yesterday morning. demolition party, which was searc ing by sea in the Rawhiti a r ea , on J£ g south side of the Bay of Islands, recalled, and crossed to BranjPrL reef, where the mine lay a * ew clia from the shore.—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 6
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135Mine Exploded Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 6
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