TAR TANKER EXPLODES
Man Warned By Hissing (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 22. A workman leaped clear of the back of a bitumen tanker seconds before it exploded and showered 500 gallons of boiling tar on to a New Lynn street today. Three young children playing near the rear of the tanker had moved away seconds before the explosion. The explosion shook nearby homes. The workman, George Herbert, of Oxley avenue, Mount Roskill, was splattered with tar, but suffered no injury. “I was standing right beside the end of the tanker when I heard a loud hissing noise,” he said. “I started to run but had not got six feet before there was a terrific explosion. “I don’t know where I would have been now if the hissing noise hadn’t warned me.” An old dried-out bed of the Danube, thought to be thousands of years old, is to be used by Hungarians for an irrigation canal.—Reuter.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30269, 23 October 1963, Page 14
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