THE RESULTS OF AN EXPLOSION. When the oil launch Pakeha, belonging to Mr. Duncan Steele, of Rotorua, was returning from Lake Rotoiti one evening, the engine was not working very well, and Mr. Steele went to examine it. No sooner had he opened the engine-room door than there was an explosion. Messrs, Steele, Mead, Iles, and Goodson were more or less injured, and the launch eaught fire with the result depicted in the photograph.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 23 November 1907, Page 11
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74THE RESULTS OF AN EXPLOSION. When the oil launch Pakeha, belonging to Mr. Duncan Steele, of Rotorua, was returning from Lake Rotoiti one evening, the engine was not working very well, and Mr. Steele went to examine it. No sooner had he opened the engine-room door than there was an explosion. Messrs, Steele, Mead, Iles, and Goodson were more or less injured, and the launch eaught fire with the result depicted in the photograph. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 21, 23 November 1907, Page 11
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