An 'explosive' situation averted
Two boxes containing 350 sticks of dynamite were found by a hunter only 10 metres from the main trunk railway line north of the railway station at Ohakune Junction. The dynamite, which was in a soft and 'weepy' condition, was discovered on Thursday 2 February but was thought to have been there for several years. Because of it's condition an explosives expert from New Plymouth was called. He decided it was too dangerous to transport any distance so it was taken to a
nearby quarry to be burnt. The explosives expert estimates it would have been lying near the railway line for the past five or six years. "It was lucky children didn't find it" said Ohakune constable Marty Sutherland who is continuing his enquiries as to how such a potentially dangerous explosive came to be left so close to the Main Trunk railway line. Anyone with any ideas as to where it came from or how it got there is asked to contact the Ohakune police station.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 34, 14 February 1984, Page 1
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172An 'explosive' situation averted Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 1, Issue 34, 14 February 1984, Page 1
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