STATE OF OIL TANKS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1931, Page 8

STATE OF OIL TANKS

With regard to the bulk oil and motor spirit stores at Napier and Hastings, Iho damage resulting from the earthquake appears to have been less] serious than .was at first feared. The information received by the local offices of the oil companies has been very brief, bnt indications are that al-

though some of the buildings' arid' tank's. have suffered more or less serious dam-, ago, the staffs appoar to have come through safely. ■ , Tho local office of the Shell' Oil ComV pany received the following brief wiretj "'Allwell; tanks in a' terrible 'mess. ";> The Shell Company's tanks, which are; at Napier, are of the vertical, above-: ground type, which are more liable to, damage from a shake than the underground type. . ;i The Vacuum Oil Company, which has underground tanks at Hastings, re-; ceivedavord that things were all right and that, so far as was known, the staff was: safe. , The Vacuum Oil Company has received word that the company's briclc.1 store ..at Hastings collapsed, but that' the vertical tanks, with a Oft safety sway, were all right.

The Texas Oil Company received a wire yesterday stating that the vertical, tanks at' Hastings were standing,'but were out of plumb. The first-grade motor spirit tank was leaking at the joint of the service pipe. Themessage also stated that practically all the garages at Napier were burnt, and many fit Hastings were destroyed. The company's equipment at Daunevirke was reported undamaged.