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CARGO-STEALING. Per Press Association— Copyright.) DUNEDIN, October 10; Michele Garro, an Italian watersider, on two charges of stealing cargo from the steamer Norfolk at Pt. Chalmers, was sentenced to four months imprisonment. # VIOLENT EXPLOSION. v AUCKLAND, Ocober 10. A violent explosion on Saturday afternon caused extensive damage to the Mount Roskill Road Board's large sewage tank situated on the Manukau foreshore. The cause is unknown and the matter has been placed in, the hands of the police. The force of the explosion'was sufficient to split the flat roof of the reinforced concrete structure in all directions. The heavy concrete, nine inches thick, was fractured in many places* some of the fissures being five or six inches wide. Fortunately, the side walls did not give, although a hehvy rock wall which forms the seaward side of the 1 tank, showed a decided budge, indicating the intensity of the explosion.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1932, Page 5
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150DOMINION ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1932, Page 5
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