FIREWORKS EXPLODE
IGNITED BY SUN’S RAYS
A premature display of fireworks was caused at a shop occupied in Grey Lynn, Auckland, yesterday afternoon, when a quant it} 7 of fireworks was set alight by the sun shining through a window. The fireworks had. been, piled on a ledge near the window of a room at the hack of the shop, preparatory to being displayed. Within a few minutes from the time the first firework caught -alight about £l2 worth had been destroyed, those which did not explode being ruined by water. The outbreak was quickly subdued by,Western Suburbs and Central brigades. Damage was confined to broken windows and a few lining hoards, apart from the loss of the fireworks.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4402, 9 October 1934, Page 2
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119FIREWORKS EXPLODE Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4402, 9 October 1934, Page 2
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