EXPLOSION OF GAS.
.--ROOMS IN HOTEL WRECKED. | :,ff* , v — -r- V* : : ; > Ji « {BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] : y_ >?- '--' ' Timabu, * Tuesday,isotrr ffline j p.m. on Monday 'the diningroom :in the Fairlie Hotel .and • the "two.; bedrooms above were wrecked by' an explosion of acetylene gas. The gas 'had'.; ~been escaping for some time, the leak ap- > parently being between the ceiling and the • floor" above the -' diningroom. The rooms * mentioned were practically ; destroyed, and' ■ the furniture damaged. All the windows :i ; were blown out, and the, explosion \ shook -)he; whole of the building, and was heard " ill over ; the township. Fortunately, it did : ' not start a fire, though the broken gas: pipe was flaring until the meter was turned j>ff. No one was near at the time, except Mr. Heckie, a visitor, who struck a Tpiatch on entering the room, and was cut v about the fsice. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14808, 11 October 1911, Page 7
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