WHISTLING BUOY EXPLODES
WORKMAN'S NARROW ESCAPE (J?RSSB ASSOCIATION CEIJBaBAM.) INVERCARGIkL, January 17. 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 most of the town was shaken. The buoy broke adrift from Fairchild rock, Foveaux Strait, some time ago. It was being electrically welded when a piece about two feet square blew out with a terrific explosionThe workman was not injured, and fortunately no one was in the main line of the explosion. Many windows in the oyster cannery about 20 yards away, were cracked by the force of the explosion, and in the factory and the office articles were dislodged from the shelves.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22921, 18 January 1940, Page 6
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