HURLED HALF A MILE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 232, 1 October 1925, Page 10

HURLED HALF A MILE.

PLATE FROM THE CYRENA

WOMAN'S NARROW ESCAPE.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent i WANGANUI, this day

Although every precaution was taken to flag off a wide area in the danger zone during the blowing up of the Cyrena, still an element of danger exists through flying pieces of steel. An instance of this was disclosed yesterday afternoon when, after an explosion, a large piece of the ship's plate travelled a distance of half a mile and buried itself in tbe sand about three feet from a Castlecliff lady and her family of small children. This occurred at the corner of Nikau Street and the Town Belt Boad. The lady had gone to meet her children coming from school and was wheeling a pram. She had stopped to allow a small boy to catch up, otherwise she considers that either the pram or herself would have been in the direct line of tbe flying steel. She heard the explosion, and a little later there was a whirring noise resembling an aeroplane's flight. The next thing was a dull thud as the steel penetrated the sand, about a foot of it being left uncovered-