FIRE SWEEPS PIT MOUTH.
£30,000 DAMAGE AT KURRI KURRI FOUR HUNDRED MINERS IDLE. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, Tuesday. One of the most disastrous pit-top fires in • the history of the Northern coalfields caused £30,000 damage at Pelawmain Colliery, Kurri Kurri, during the night. All the pit-top buildings and screens were demolished, but the power house and engine rooms were saved.
After a great fight by several brigades, the flames were prevented from extending to the pit. The flames leapt sixty feet above the mine bhildings. The town and country for a radius of •two miles around was illuminated as it were daytime. 4 The cause of the outbreak is a mystery. About four hundred miners will be thrown idle.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1931, Page 5
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