STORES COLLAPSE
UNDER HUGE WEIGHT. GREAT FALL OF TINNED MILK. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 27. The New Zealand Co-operative Com. pany’e stores, Eden terrace, collapsed this morning under a weight of 7000 cases of dried milk, weighing 450 tons. Four workmen got clear by hastily descending when they heard groaning and creaking of timber. The store was only completed two months ago, and wag of timber and iron, 100 feet long by 40 feet high. The half of one wall and thousands of cases of milk fell into the adjoining section, hundreds of case* being damaged.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 6
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97STORES COLLAPSE New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11738, 28 January 1924, Page 6
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