PECULIARITIES OF EXPLOSIVES.
SUPREME COURT DISCUSSION. (By Teteirapta.—Special Correspondent.! Auckland, May 21. The peculiarities of various explosives worn brielly discussed at tho civil sitting" of the Supreme Court to-day. A witness, who had several years' experience with gelignite, stated that tho explosive struck upwards in the stimo manner ns blastingpowder, while dynamite struck downward::'. Mr. lieed queried the correctness of the that geliETnite exploded tij>wards, and to clinch his argument, said that sacks were often placet! over die charge j n~t to keep a few stray stones from" living about. The. witness refused to vary his statement, and Mr. Reed remarked that at a lut"r' stage he might call evidence to prove that the explosive worked its destruction chiefly below tho surface cI the roadway. v
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1446, 22 May 1912, Page 9
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126PECULIARITIES OF EXPLOSIVES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1446, 22 May 1912, Page 9
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