TIRRIFIC EXPLOSION.
GAS PLANT BLOWN UP AT QUEENSTOWN.
(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, July 23
A terrific explosion occurred at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, the municipal acetylene gas plant blowing 'hp and causing great damage. The plant was housed in 4 corrugated iron building about 25ft by 15ft, not a vestige of which is left standing. Every sheet of iron is twisted and hurled chains away some lodging on the tops 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 tho'ugh several were cut by falling glass and are suffering from, shock. The explosion is involved in mystery. In February last a referendum was taken and the people declared almost unanimously for hydro-electricity.' The damage runs into hundreds of pounds.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 June 1923, Page 3
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