WALL COLLAPSES
FOUNDATIONS UNDERMINED By Telec-ranh— Preas Association WELLINGTON, August 30 The collapse of a brick wall about 60 feet long, which fortunately occurred during the night, laid a large part of a factory open to a vacant section just off Ghuznee Street. An empty space behind Woolworths’ Cuba Street shop was being prepared for extensions at the rear of the shop and trenches for the foundations were dug alongside the wall of Read and Fenwick’s glass-bevelling factory. Evidently the trench affected the concrete foundation of the brick wall of the factory, and It slipped into the trench, allowing the wall to fall outwards'. Had the fall occurred during the daytime when workmen were in the trench they would have been buried under a pile of bricks.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20510, 31 August 1936, Page 13
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127WALL COLLAPSES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20510, 31 August 1936, Page 13
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