OLD WOODEN FIFES

Evening Star, Issue 19519, 29 March 1927, Page 1

OLD WOODEN FIFES

RELICS OF CONVICT DAYS Workmen engaged in-.making exravations near Wynyard square, Sj’dney, for supports for tho approaches to the Sydney Harbor bridge, discovered 1 recently some old wooden pipes'which - nro believed to have been made by con- ,; victs, when Fort Jackson was a penal settlement They were located near a ; disused well some 30ft to 35ft below the | present surface of the streets. I The pipes appeared to have been hollowed from limbs and stems of trees, probably ironbarks, and were in a fair j state of- preservation’. One section was fashioned into the form of a pump, j with which evidently the water from I tlie well was obtained. Some were j joined by means of a wooden tube inside. They created considerable interest, and were inspected’'by Dr J. J. C. Bfadfield, chief' engineer ' for the Sydney Harbor bridge.. ;