A SCARCITY OF WATER.
In the early gold digging days water on some of the fields was of en as dear to buy as milk, half-a-crown being by no means the highest price demanded for a small bucket of , the precious fluid. Tanks were generally built underground, properly covered, and with fluming constructed around them to carry surplus water, from the pumps, back to the reservoir without waste. But there were no gaugei for measuring in those days. A man requiring four gallons of water took with him a seven-gallon vessel, but the only available measure at the pumps was a can capable of holding exactly eight 1 gallons. , By marking the vessels, and adopting a method of tilting, the attendant managed to satisfy himself and 'the purchaser as to the 'quantity, but if he had'used the two vessels in another way, he could have measured four gallons exactly. What is the fewest number of operations (confined to filling and pouring out), and not resorting to the attendant's tricks, in which this can.bo accomplished? An "operation" in this sense means filling a -vessel wholly or in part.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 20
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187A SCARCITY OF WATER. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 20
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