BOILING TAR IGNITED
While a horse-drawn tar-boiler in Shirley Road. Papatoetoe, was being moved this morning, the boiling contents splashed over the sides of the container and caught fire.
Dens© volumes of smoke rose from the fire, and the Papatoetoe Fire Brigade was called out. Its services were not required, however, as the board’s employees quelled the flames with sand.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 12
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60BOILING TAR IGNITED Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 541, 19 December 1928, Page 12
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