A VAST EXPLOSION.
ruwtK si a I run bluw& ur. BAND MINES AFFECTED. TOWNS IN DARKNESS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) CAPETOWN. December 8. The Victoria Falls power station, situated at Vereeniging, 30 miles from Johannesburg, the largest power station in South Africa, was wrecked by an explosion early this morning. Huge masses of machinery, some weighing over a ton, were hurled hundreds of yards, cutting down trees. Some large masses of iron fell across the Vaal River., upon which the station stood. It supplied one-fifth of the total electric power required to work the Hand mines, also the light for a number of townships. All these services are at a standstill. No one was seriously hurt. The cost of replacement of the station will be approximately £50,000. Vereeniging is the town where the Peace Conference met on May 14, 1902, the peace being signed at Pretoria en May 31.
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Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 7
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151A VAST EXPLOSION. Auckland Star, Issue 291, 9 December 1925, Page 7
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