160,000 TONS BLASTED
RAW CEMENT ROCK (O.O.) WHANGAREI, Wednesday With a low roar and with dust rising through the drizzling rain a mass of cement rock, estimated at 160,000 tons, slipped down the hillside at Portland to-day. The occasion was a periodical blasting operation to provide material for Wilsons New Zealand Portland Cement Works and was the first for over a year. Eight hundred cases of gelignite, weighing nearly 16 tons,- were used. "Such big shots are always a source of anxiety to us," said the managing director of the company, - Mr. F. M. Rhodes. "However, everything went according to plan, and the works are now furnished with sufficient raw cement rock for another 12 months.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24250, 16 April 1942, Page 6
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