BUOY EXPLODES.
MOST OF TOWN SHAKEN. WORKMAN'S LUCKY ESCAPE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Wednesday. A workman had a miraculous escape from serious injury at Bluff to-day when a 10-ton whistling buoy, which was being repaired on the ferry wharf, exploded with such violence that moftt of the town was shaken. The buoy, which broke adrift from Fairchild Rock. Foveaux Strait, some time ago. was being electrically welded when a piece about 2ft square blew out with a terrific explosion. The workman was not injured and fortunately no one was in the main line of the explosion.
Many windows in an oyster cannery about 20 yards away were cracked, and in the factory office articles were dislodged from shelves.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 10
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