PETROL ON FIRE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 28 April 1922, Page 5

PETROL ON FIRE.

FORTY BEIGADES AT WOKK

BY CABLE-PEEbrf ASSOCIATION—-COPYBJGHT

LONDOX, April .27

Forty fire brigades fought .a fire at Capel Leonard's petrol distillery at Hackneywiek. Lorries were requisitioned to throw tons of sand on the blazing oil, from which flames shot hundreds of feet in the air..

As the oil tanks, were involved, neighbouring houses and factories were evacuated, the inhabitants fearing explosions. The fire was eventually controlled, only the still house being gutted. Fifty tanks, each of 50.00 gallons, within the works escaped.