FIRE

Inangahua Times, 26 April 1932, Page 3

FIRE

AN ABANDONED COLLIERY RESIDENTS ABOVE ANXIOUS (United Press Assn—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SYDNEY, Last Night. A fire in abandoned, colliery workings beneath the township of Greta, near Newcastle, is causing anxiety. Volumes of smoke issuing from the openings in the earth, killed the vegetation and is affecting households’ water supplies. _Many fear an explosion may wreck the homes. T ' t i Pithead of Greta Colliery Destroyed Reed 105 a.m. . Sydney, This day The Greta fires have extended considerably and are", now a definite menace to the safety of the Main Northern Kail way line. The flames, which rose to a height of 60 feet, caught the pit bead of the Central Greta Colliery destroyed practically all the overhead structure.