PETROL FIRE
SYDNEY DISASTER AVERTED
(Australian Press Association)
SYDNEY, May 31
An explosion and a lire at ii petrol storage tank on the harbour front menaced a Colonial Sugar Refining Company’s large works nearby. One workman was seriously injured. The tan!; contained only fifteen inches of petrol, and the firemen were able to prevent the flames from reaching two adjoining filled tanks, forty feet in diameter, which would have caused a big loss of life had they exploded.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1929, Page 6
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78PETROL FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 1 June 1929, Page 6
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