STUMPING EXHIBITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8102, 4 October 1904, Page 2

STUMPING EXHIBITION.

.. A . 4 . vei< y interesting and suooe&sluf exhibition of extracting .tumps with the new explosive "B^ndrock' was Zn at Auroa on Monday by the trarefiing « pert, Mr Twleaven. The nrst stump operated on was an enormous rimu, ten or twelve feet in diameter at the LmT and v«ry «,iid. When tl» charge www ploded (with an ordinary detonatdr) tho efiect was remarkable, nob a vestige of th» great stump bemg left in the ground! lho stump was split up into huge piece*, winch w<}rt> hurleS thirty and fortyyVwii away. The next stump tackled was « very tough r.ta, and for smaT* ex* penditure of three shillings' worth of Rendrock this stump (which would have taken wo men with fack 8 ai» day to remove) was 'J/ 0 ™ ««^ <wt Mr Veleaven then rJi \^J lih how several charge^ could be simultaneously « - xploded a spiffing stump by a battmg logs with excellent results. A lira* number of settlers attended to watch InV operations, and it wm amply demonstwted to them that flendrock, judiciously Jaced; is much cheaper and more ettecayttban. Rendrock is that it can be weM' ranmedf home without any danger oil exalosfefe Rendrock is not explosive until' dipped 1 in, the liquid supplied with it,.so*efV is no. danger in storing it in, the house. Mr Wr Jf ley { ** ih « fote' I ** *B«nt for Renarock, assisted Mr Treleaven, and Zt rsports good bastness results.

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