DEMONSTRATION GIVEN
NATIONAL MILITARY RESERVE DEMOLITIONS IN WARFARE An instructive demonstration in the use of explosives for military demolitions was carried out at To Miro on Saturday by a platoon oi field engineers from the Hamilton company of the National Military Reserve (Class 11) led by PlatoonCommander R. G. Howell. Various types of charges such as cutting and borehole charges, as well as mined earth charges, were fired both electrically and by safety fuse. The objects attacked were representative of those met with in defence work, and included road craters of various diameters, cutting heavy railway rails, steel girders steel plate, heavy round and rectangular steel bars, and the cutting down of large trees by borehole charges. In one part of the demonstrations, seven separate objects were loaded and the charges fired simultaneously by means of electric leads from a dynamo exploder.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 6
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142DEMONSTRATION GIVEN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 6
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