WATER SUPPLY FAILS
• INTAKE WASHED AWAY At GERALDINE , REPAIRS EFFECTED /AND/1 SUPPLY RESTORED /T/ /:/_:/J ■ ' The water supply failed in Geraldine yesterday morning; and : house- 1 * wives were without water for wash day. ’ , The trouble occurred., because" the intake, about a' mile north of the township, washed away in a flood, and the river dropped below the level of the new intake during the night. * - The borough foreman:'-.{Mr Mostyn Thompson) and staffwere/on the job early to effect repair*, and the supply was restored to most/homes "shortly after 10 a,m. • ' //•’'?-, ‘. - Opportunity was •-taken” yesterday to clean outj-the large reservoir; when, it was empty- ‘ '/I -/'‘'l:
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22795, 22 August 1939, Page 7
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