EXPLOSION AT MINE.
SHED BLOWN TO PIECES. EMPLOYEES’ LUCKY ESCAPE. PREVIOUS CASES OF SABOTAGE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 10, li a.m.) SYDNEY, August 10. An explosion at the Maitland Extended No. 5 colliery, a small mine on the Rothbury estate, near Branxton, blew a two-roomed galvanised shed to pieces. A motor car and a bicycle whieli were nearby were wrecked. Two employees of the colliery occupied the sheil. but bad just left it when the explosion occurred. During Hie past fourteen months four other explosions, thought by the police to he cases of sabotage, have occurred on the estate.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 7
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102EXPLOSION AT MINE. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 7
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