A WATERSPOUT
BURST WATER MAIN AT NGAIO. About midday yesterday workmen engaged in laying new gas mains at tho bottom of Abbot Road, Ngaio, accidentally ‘tapped” the water main, which was carrying a pressure of 1851 b. The immediate result was that the pipe burst, end a six-inch stream of water shot skywards to a height of about thirty or forty feet, descending on a nearby store. The occupants of the store became really alarmed, as the stream of felling water “was very like a heavy thunderstorm.” The water flooded three rooms and the cellar. Being a large amount of damage to stock.” Several residents were without water for four or five hours.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 13
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113A WATERSPOUT Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 15, 12 October 1927, Page 13
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