GELIGNITE IN TEA ROOM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 200, 7 August 1928, Page 5

GELIGNITE IN TEA ROOM

STARTLING DISCOVERY. FOOTBALL "FANS” DANGER. Wanganui, Aug. 6. A quantity of gelignite was discovered recently in the tea-rooms at Spriggens Park, in a detached building, only a few yards from the main stand. Had this gelignite exploded on a Saturday afternoon when large crowds attend football matches, there is not the slightest doubt that a number of people would have been killed and others maimed by flying debris. The discovery was made through some boys, who, while playing in the vicinity, came across a substantial quantity of gelignite, and, boy-like, divided it amongst them. A local resident, familiar with the explosive, saw one of the boys with a piece in his possession, and immediately took steps to have it all collected, fie then informed the polij), who are making close inquiries. There has been no occasion to use cplosives in the park, and this fact makes it the harder to understand what motive nny person had for storing gelignite in a place where it was a constant danger.