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EXPLOSION IN HOUSE. BURNED-OUT FUSE DISCOVERED. AUCKLAND, This Day. Philip Henry Goss, contractor, residing in' a house on the Melanesian Trust Board 1 property at Kohimarama, where the firm of Goss and Muller are employing sixty men on road work, had a| sensational experience . shortly after one o’clock this morning. He was awakened by an explosion in his bedroom, which he found full of smoke and dust. His first impression was that the house had collapsed. When he had secured-"a light he dis ° f covered a hole five feet square in the floor just behind the window, which] was broken, in common with other windows. He- found a length of burntout fuse leading from under the house to the hole. Goss was. not injured. He cannot suggest any cause for the outrage.—Press Assn.
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Northern Advocate, 4 February 1926, Page 4
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