PETROL TANK FALLS FROM PLANE
Wrecks Bank In Melbourne;'
MELBOURNE, October 1-5. Three minutes after a petrol tank which had fallen from an aeroplane landed in the light well of the Bank of New Zealand building in Collins Street, Melbourne, today there was a deafening explosion which wrecked the bank chambers on the ground floor and offices on the mezzanine and first floors, blew glass from the front windows right across -the street, and sent a bronze transom over the front door of the bank hurtling to the footpath. A remarkable feature of the accident was that nobody was injured. [The head office of the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington has been advised that the bank records are intact. Business is being continued in temporary -premises lent by another bank.]
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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131PETROL TANK FALLS FROM PLANE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 18, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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