MARINE EXPLOSION
OFF FAREWELL SPIT ', COLUMN OF BLACK •SMOKE.;.: 'By Telegraph—Press Assooiatloa) . WELLINGTON, 13tli July,' The Acting-Secretary of .the- Post and Telegraph Department has been advised as follows'by'..the postmaster, Collingwood: - •'-. .-••:• :•.;■:-•<.-•. "The lighthouse keeper at Farewell Spit reports that at 2.15 p.m.-a heavy r explosion occurred out at sea about one arid a half miles north-wegt" of Farewell Spit. A huge column of-water and black smoke shot into the air a'hel then travelled very rapidly in the direction of the French Pass, passing close to the lighthouse. There was no damage to the lighthouse.'©
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 15 July 1929, Page 5
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93MARINE EXPLOSION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 15 July 1929, Page 5
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