TONS OF EXPLOSIVE
Bursting upward and outward as three tons of explosive were fired underneath it, the face at Smeed's Quarry, on the Waikato River above Tuakau, yielded another 30,000 cubic yards or so of spawns, on Saturday. The material will feed crushers which are being called on to work at high pressure to supply graded road, metal for highway improvement undertakings in the province. Some 200 ft. of tunnelling, penetrating to a depth of about 100 ft., had been driven into the bottom of the face and the explosive placed at intervals in the tunnels.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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96TONS OF EXPLOSIVE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 15 November 1939, Page 12
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