GAS EXPLOSION
ACCIDENT AT WAIMATE. . ,
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WABLATE, July 20
’There was an explosion this afternoon at the local Gas Works. It was due to >a leak in the pump which forces tlq, gas from the retorts into the holder.
■ The explosion blow out a twenty-five foot brick wall. The leak of g«s filled the pump room, and became ignited from a nearby pilot light. No one was hurl, but the firemen had a difficult task to extinguish the. gas flames round the pump.
All other moans proved .ineffective, but wet clay availed. It blocked the vah-a, thus cutting off the flames. There was little done, except that .to the wfeV 1. y, V ■ .
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 5
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115GAS EXPLOSION Hokitika Guardian, 21 July 1932, Page 5
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