A REAL FLASHLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1931, Page 11

A REAL FLASHLIGHT

LAST NIGHT'S ■ LIGHTNING

People all over tho city saw last evening, a little after 7 o'clock, a flash oi! light across tho sky, and heard a moment or two Inter the "bump" of a fairly heavy explosion, and wondered what it was all about. To-day, when they learned of the charges fired in tho demolition of the. old gaol at Mount Cook, they wore satisfied, and were moved to remark that it must have, been quite- a fair explosion for demolition work. The flash and explosion noted so generally did not come from the demolition charges at all, for oven to those who were on Mount Cook itself the main explosion came as a very poor sort of a rumbling roar, with no sign of a flash. The- big fuss was made by a Hashlight which was set off by the "Evening Post" photographer in the hope- of catching the gaol immediately after the shots were fired. Probably it was the biggest flash ever h'red in Wellington, and it went off like a gun, but so dense was the dust which shot out from the building that the photographic result | was mostly dust; cloud, brilliantly lit 'up. Amateurs are strongly advised not. to set off flash light by tho half-pound, first, because it is expensive; secondly, because Mio bang may frighten neighbours; and, thirdly, because a flashlight charge of that size may easily demolish the inexperienced experimenter. ______^____