SHOP SHATTERED.
FUSED CABLE THE CAUSE.
Terrific Explosion in Karangahape Road.
DEBRIS HURLED ACROSS STREET
GRAMOPHONE PARLOUR WRECKED
With a shattering explosion like a great gun, Howie's gramophone shop in Karangahape Road, Newton, was wrecked from end to end at two o'clock this morning. Gramophones, panatropes, records, needles and accessories were flung in all directions, and so great was the concussion that foundations were moved and partitions were shifted out of alignment. The damage is estimated at over £2000. A bitumen gas explosion, the result of a fused underground cable, was the cause.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 259, 1 November 1929, Page 8
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