FIRE AT PETROLEUM WORKS.
TEN THOUSAND GALLONS OP OIL DESTROYED.
By Telegraph—Press Association, NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 17.
About four o'clock this morning a fire occurred at. the Taranaki Petroleum Company's works. Three tanks and about seventy barrels of crude petroleum were destroyed —10,000 gallons in all. Fencing and a shed were also destroyed, but the wind fortunately saved the derrick and the other buildings.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3118, 18 February 1909, Page 3
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64FIRE AT PETROLEUM WORKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3118, 18 February 1909, Page 3
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