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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 73, 19 December 1928, Page 13

Just after a motor-car had passed over the spot, a patch of roadway in the middle of an Auckland street, collapsed, pud exposed a large-sized hole, with seve; ’i feet of water at the bottom (says the “Star”) The trouble was caused by an old sewer, winch would have been attended to some time ago, had funds been available. The same trouble existed in the lower part of Wellesley Street East, where an old sewer that ran under the middle of the roadway used to cave in periodically, to the peri! of tramcars and other passing vehicles Some of these old sewers are very nearly as old as Auckland itself, and it speaks well for the old-time workmen that they have lasted so long. . Broken china, collected over a period of twenty years, forms the material of a wonderful grotto, five fet high, in li cottage garden at Feltham. Middlesex. Manufacturers of all kinds of goods from steel gates to jewellery now send their representatives to the London museums to study the exhibits and get new ideas.