CONSTERNATION!
PETROL SOLD FOR KEROSENp BROADCAST WARNING HEARD (P.A.) AUCKLAND, April 29. Fire brigadesmen stood by last night awaiting an explosion. The police threw out a drag-net and radio warnings were broadcast. Public services were thrown into a state of emergency, because two women were loose in the city with a can of petrol which they thought, was kerosene. Auckland’s most worried citizen was a shop assistant .who discovered they had been sold petrol in error. , At 8 p.m. the fire brigadesmen relaxed and the police uncrossed their fingers, for the women had heard the broadcast and Informed i the police thqt the can was-still v~ ' unopened.
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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 4
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107CONSTERNATION! Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 4
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