GAS EXPLOSION
QUEENSTOWN PLANT DESTROYED (Per Press Association).
DUNEDIN, June 23. A terrific explosion occurred at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, the Municipal acetylene gas plant blowing up, and causing great damage. The plant was housed in a corrugated iron building about 25ft. by 15ft., not a vestige of which was left standing. Every sheet of iron was twisted and hurled chains away, some lodging on top of houses and trees. Some wooden houses in the vicinity were wrecked, and nearly every window within a radius of a quarter of a mile was broken by the concussion. No person suffered severe injury, though several were cut by falling glass, and some are suffering from, shock. The explosion is involved in mystery.\ In February last a referendum taken by the people declared almost unanimously for hydro electricity. The damage runs into hundreds of pounds.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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