Splinter Pierces Roof
A small steel splinter hurled more than 300 yards from a quarry where a demolition squad of the Auckland battalion of the Home Guard was giving a demonstration on Sunday morning passed through the roof of a house at 18 Llewellyn street, Point Chevalier, occupied by Mrs. C. McGerney. At the time, Mrs. McGerney was standing at the kitchen bench and she narrowly escaped being struck bv the falling splinter. The squad had buried a steel girder in a trench at the quarry for the demonstration. When a charge of gelignite was fired, a jagged piece of metal, apparently from a weaker section of the girder, was detached and forced out by the explosion.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 10 December 1941, Page 5
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117Splinter Pierces Roof Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20635, 10 December 1941, Page 5
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