Workplace accidents that result in serious injury or death are thankfully not the common occurrence they used to be. The reduction can be partially attributed to lessons learnt from incidents such as the one the occurred in central Upper Hutt in March 1914. Believed to be the result of illegally-stored gelignite in a grocery store, an explosion (said to have been heard as far away as Kaiwharawhara) caused eight citizens to lose their lives. These men had been fighting what was described as a “regulation store fire” and were oblivious to the danger presented by the gelignite.
To claim a find, you must locate two plaques (one on the ground in Main St and the other on a sculpture in Centre Walk) at the site of the explosion and obtain the answer to the following two questions:
1. What is the sum of the seven digits on the Main St plaque?
2. What type of stone was used for the sculpture?
Answers can be sent to the cache owner by email or through the Geocaching Message Center. There is no need to wait for a response but the cache owner will contact you if there is a problem.
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.