Tho remaining portion of the old .Mount Cook barracks, Wellington, was blown up shortly before 5 p.m. on Thursday. Only a. few people gathered to seo tho final shot lired as the raging gale and fast falling rain made conditions in the vicinity almost unbearable. An enormous pile of bricks is now Hie sole remains of the old building. Just, prior to the charge being tired, the gale blew down a partially erected tin building nearby, pieces of metal flying about in all directions.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17436, 7 April 1931, Page 2
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