Billiards Championship.
The desirability of promoting an Australian and New Zealand amateur billiards championship in Wellington during the centennial celebrations was stressed at the annual meeting of the Wellington Billiards Association last night. It was decided to proceed with the necessary preliminaries, and to endeavour to secure nominations from R. Marshall, the British Empire champion, and E. Cleary, Victorian champion. Quarry Explosion.
What residents thought was an earthquake was felt in Oamaru on Tuesday afternoon, as the result of the firing of a shot in the harbour board’s quarry. The shot was a blow-out and did considerable damage. Rocks flying in all directions wrecked three sheds, one being reduced to matchwood. A building used as the quarry office was badly damaged, rocks some three feet in diameter crashing through the roof. More than 150,000 tons of stone and debris, it is estimated, was brought down by the shot, including much excellent stone for harbour works. Fortunately, no one was hurt by the flying rocks.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380818.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164Billiards Championship. Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 August 1938, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. 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