GAS PLANT BLOWN UP.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
SEVERAL HOUSES WRECKED. ’ WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. DUNEDIN, Saturday. There was a terrific explosion at Queenstown yesterday afternoon. The Municipal acetylene gas plant blew up, causing much damage. The plant was housed in a cprrugated iron building about 25 by 15 feet, not a vestige of which is left standing.
Every sheet of iron was twisted and hurled through the air for chains, some lodging on the tops of houses and trees.
Some wooden houses in the vicinity were wrecked; and nearly every window within a radius of a quarter of a mile was broken by concussion. No person suffered severe injury, through several were cut by falling glass and are suffering from shock. . The explosion is involved in mystery. In February' last a referendum was taken, and the people declared -almost unanimously for hydro electricity. The damage runs into hundreds of pounds.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15272, 23 June 1923, Page 5
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