Dannevirko had an unenviable experience when right in the middle of the Christmas rush the whole town was plunged in darkness for about an hour through the blowing out**of a pot head on the Danncvirke line at the Ruarou sub-station. Shopkeepers who did not have gas as a stand-by had to bring candles into requisition and some closed their premises rather than attempt to carry on. One shopkeeper' whose store was crowded at the time, with considerable present of nrind got his car out from its parking place, placed it head on directly in front of his premises, and flooded the interior with light, from its lamps.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 11
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