WATER FOR INFIRMARY.
f SUBTERRANEAN FLOW. SUCCESSFUL BORING. GOOD SUPPLY LOCATED. < "There is plenty of water," remarked one of the members of the infirmary committee of the Auckland Hospital Board yesterday, when tests were made of the bore that has been sunk in the infirmary grounds in order to secure a permanent water supply. The bore has been sunk to a f depth of 240 feet, and the flow is 2000 gallons an hour, which is more than the insti-
tution needs. At present the cost of water for the infirmary is 1/3 a thousand gallons. . The supply from the tore is sparkling and soft and is immediately available for the gardens, laundry and boilers. It has yet to he baeteriologically tested. The site for the bore was selected by a water diviner, who said that at sufficient depth one of the streams radiating from beneath One Tree Hill would be met. Diviners state that there are several streams flowing underneath the grounds of the Auckland Hospital, but they are likely to remain untapped until full investigation of the new water supply at the infirmary has been made.
Barrels of wood for packing' and shipping fruit and similar commodities are being superseded' by barrels of compressed paper. The cost is one-third of the cost of a wooden barrel.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 250, 21 October 1932, Page 8
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218WATER FOR INFIRMARY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 250, 21 October 1932, Page 8
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