GAS EXPLOSION.
AT QUEENSTOWN. Dunedin, June 23. There was a terriffie explosion at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, the municipal acetylene gas plant blowing up and causing great damage to the plant, which was housed in :i corrugated iron building about 25 Feet by 15 feet, not a vestige of which is left standing. Every sheet of iron was twisted and hurled a great distance, some lodging on the tops of houses and in trees. Some wooden houses in the vicinity were wrecked and nearly every window within a radius of a quarter of' n mile was broken by concussion. No person suffered severe injurv. though several were cut by falling glass, and some suffered shock. The explosion is involved in mystery.
In February last a referendum was taken and the people declared almost unanimously for hydro-elec-tricity.
The cost of damage runs into hundreds of pounds.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2598, 26 June 1923, Page 3
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144GAS EXPLOSION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2598, 26 June 1923, Page 3
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