METAL AND MAIN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 8

METAL AND MAIN

A MATTER OF HUTT ROAD TESTS.

A "Post" representative was informed to-day in connection with suggestions made that the city authorities might well set'about discovering ,the old water main. "ambling all over the'place" along the Hutt road,, that the old main had already been discovered over its, full length and plotted down in detaii on sectional plans of the road a couple' of "months ago. There had, moreover, been no occasion to call upon an expert from overseas to do the *york, for the full length of the old lost pipe line was discovered by means of a "stethoscope" within one'week of the commencement of the search.

,The public need have no fears, the ■■"Post's" representative was also informed, that the metal being used in the Hutt road work, was chosen in haphazard fashion, nor did there exist a need for the sending of samples of stone from various Wellington quarries to the Canterbury College Department of Engineering to be tested, for that had already been done, and. the reports had been in due time—a considerable time ago—received. Those tests, in the opinion of. the experts, had shown that Ngahauranga quarry stone was, all points considered, the best available metal in the district, having a clashing test strength of about 23,000 pounds to the square inch^ the heaviest specific gravity, of the five sample metals, and attrition properties expressed at 2.88 per cent., which was considered very satisfactory and the mark of a very good stone. ■