LOUD EXPLOSION
' i ON FRENCH CRUISER AT •. AUCKLAND
tßy Telesraph-rPreas Association)
AUCKLAND, sth August. When officials and members of the
French Club were inspecting the cruis-■''■er-'TouryilJe. this morning;'-a loud explosion shook the vessel. Instead of , panic and an attempt to quit the cruiser, people dashed to the upper deck, where hung a heavy cloud of , smoke. Petrol dripping from a small engine upon the plates of another engine '-Under a platform where two airplanes are housed abaft the second funnel' had- exploded through a large ventilator. Thei only '. persons perturbed ; were a group inspecting the airplanes when the explosion occurred.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19290806.2.40
Bibliographic details
Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 5
Word Count
100LOUD EXPLOSION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Nelson Evening Mail. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in