EXPLOSION OF GAS
i. HOTEL DAMAGED. By Telegraph— Press Association. , f n Timaru, Last Night. At 9 p.m. on .Monday the dtniiur. Fair.e Hotel, a wooden building, were wicked by an of gas. the gas had been escaping some. ■r nk was "PParently (between the ceiling and the floor aboro the dining-room, as that structure was practicaly destroyed and the umiC damaged by falling through. All thl windows were blown out. The explosion "'hieh shock the .We building -2 a,rd ail over the township. h it did not start a general Are «l ough the broken ga.fipe till the meter was turned off. No one was near, except Mr. Heekie, a visitor who ..truck a match on entering the room, and was cut about the face
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 5
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126EXPLOSION OF GAS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 94, 11 October 1911, Page 5
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