Master-Gunner Wey bourne and Ker-Keant-Majoir Head have returned to WelI'ington from New Plymouth, where they had been, 1 on a. mission to blow up the German submarine mine which was wnshed up recently on the Opuna&e beach. The mine was about 4ffc m height, pear-shaped, with a top diameter of about 3ft. The mine was resting high up on a sandy beach. It had five horns, all m good condition, and the mine, altogether, was free from, seagrowth and m first-class order. It was coated with an aluminiaun-colored paint. A charge of 2-^lb of gun-cotton was placed 'Underneath the mmc m the sa.n.d, and discharged wfth the ordinary time-fuse. The two military mien had about 30 spectators with them. The party stood off at a distance of about half-a-mdle. The explosion was amazingly loud. There was only one detonation. A hole about 17ft m diameter and about 7ft deep was blasted \in the sand. Fragments of metal fell 500 yards aiway. Only smal l pieces of the mine could 1 be found after the explosion. 1 Naeol for Influenza and Catarrh.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14800, 2 January 1919, Page 3
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