HASTINGS EXPLOSION
GELIGNITE SHATTERS GATE A loud explosion, which violently shook the building, startled the household of Mr Douglas Lindsay, St. George’s road, Hastings, on Sunday morning. Investigations showed that a large double gate leading to his packing shed, about 100 yards from the house, was completely shattered by a charge of gelignite. “When I rushed out to see where the noise had come from,” said Mr Lindsay, ‘ I was just in time to hear a car moving a lthough I was unable to see it. The gate was deliberately destroyed'.’’ , Mr Lindsay said that there were two holes bored into the stout totara post and pieces of it were found 126 ft away. A neighbour, who lives approximately half a mile distant, told Mr Lindsay that the detonation shook his house, too, and he thought that it was on his own property.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22528, 7 January 1948, Page 4
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