A CLOSE CALL.
GASWORKS MENACED BY FIRE,
(PRESS ASSOCIiHOK TELEGRAM.)
WANGANUI, January 6.
The Wanganui city gasworks were menaced by fire which broke out late this afternoon. A spark from a railway engine ignited the dry grass in the reserve in which the works stand, and the flames spread to some tar, which burned fiercely, sending up a huge volume of dense black smoke. The city and Castlecliff brigades were called out and managed to keep the ever-spreading flames from reaching the big gas holder. -The damage to property was negligible. One fireman had a foot badly burned by boiling tar.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19202, 7 January 1928, Page 12
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101A CLOSE CALL. Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19202, 7 January 1928, Page 12
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