LOG HURLED ON HOUSE
\ MISHAP WHILE JBLASTING DAMAGE TO THE ROOF [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] TAURANGA. Saturday A piece of timber, weighing over half a hundredweight, was hulled in the air to crash through the roof of the home of Mr. R. Smedle.v, of Tenth Avenue, as the result of a blasting accident this evening. A young man was splitting posts from a big bluegum tree, 'recently felled on an adjoining property, and had placed a charge in a hard knot of a log. When the charge was fired a piece of the log was hurled about a chain and a-lialf away and, falling on the roof of Mr. Smedley's house, tore a hole through the iron and broke rafters, causing the roof to sag. Mr. Smedle.v was working in his garden and Mrs. and Miss Smedlev were occupied in the house when the explosion occurred. No one was injured.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22351, 24 February 1936, Page 8
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