EXPLOSION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 11

EXPLOSION.

ACETYLENE GAS PLANT

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, June 23. ; There was a terrific explosion at Queenstown yesterday afternoon, the ■ municipal acetylene gas plant blowing ,up and causing great damage. The plant was housed in a corrugated iron building, about 25 by 15 feet, not a vestige of which is left standing. Every sheet of iron was twisted and hurled chains distant, some landing 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 , brokoi by the concussion. No person suffered severe injury, though several < were cut by falling glass and are suf- \ fering from shock. The explosion is • involved in mystery. In February last a referendum was taken, and the people declared almost unanimously for hydroelectricity. The damage * runs into hundreds of pounds.