DOMINION NEWS.
PROBLEM FOR ENGINEER. AssoeiH&U'L* DUNEDIN, April 2. A problem confronting the city engineer is the removal of some JO,ULA. yards of stone which was carried down the bed of the Leith during the floods and weighs 40,000 tons The relief fund now totals £4OSO. GAMING HOUSE CHARGE. WANGANUI, April 2. Edward Nixon was fined £2O this morning for being the occupier of a shop used as a common gaming house. DREDGE EXPLOSION. WANGANUI, April 2. An inquiry into an explosion on the dredge Kaione, wherefrom resulted the deaths of Joseph Cable and M illiam MacKinnon, opened tins morning. Jas. Dalziel, assistant engineer, alter describing what occurred, said that he supervised the cleaning of the tunnA where the explosion occurred. Lie stores in the tunnel were hea%j oil, grease, one tin of kerosene, a tin "it i a small quantity of terebin, and a.so a few empty tins which had contained paint hut he found no trace of petiol. He noticed a lead pipe on the bilge pump had melted for about a loot Ihe inquire was- adjourned until McKca D uc has sufficiently recovered to give evidence.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1929, Page 9
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