TAR MAKING PLANT ON FIRE
SPECTACULAR BLAZE AT MIRAMAR (New Zealand. Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 21. | Dense black smoke billowed over’ northern Miramar early this morning; as about 25 firemen and four machines! fought the suburb’s most spectacular I industrial tire for years. The outbreak was in the rar-making plant of the Wellington Gas Company, a corrugated iron building some distance from the main gasworks. Firemen had the fire well under con- ■ trol in about 20 minutes. The fire broke out when workmen . were transferring tar from one of the, ? five stills in the shed’s plant ‘to two i | cooling tanks m an adjacent corru- | gated iron lean-to. A gas company spokesman said that' jin addition to 2500 gallons of tar lost.i i the building had been extensively! damaged, and further investigations ■ were being made to find whether other ; tar stills had been damaged. i The building and plant were insured.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27924, 22 March 1956, Page 16
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