"Evening Post" Photo. Views of the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Board's new carbonising plant in Udy Street, Petone, which was opened today by the Hon. W. Nash. The picture above shows the hopper being filled by a mechanical shovel, and that on the right shows the delivery belt, about eighty-five feet above the ground, used to feed the overhead bunker at the top of the building. By this method coal is handled at the rate of thirteen tons an hour.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 17
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81"Evening Post" Photo. Views of the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Board's new carbonising plant in Udy Street, Petone, which was opened today by the Hon. W. Nash. The picture above shows the hopper being filled by a mechanical shovel, and that on the right shows the delivery belt, about eighty-five feet above the ground, used to feed the overhead bunker at the top of the building. By this method coal is handled at the rate of thirteen tons an hour. Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 17
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