BROKEN WATER PIPE CAUSES FLOODING
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 20. About 1,000,000 gallons of water swept in a torrent down the Great North road at New Lynn late on Saturday afternoon, when a joint in one of the trunk water mains leading to the city blew out. For four hours, a section _of the road was under water and special arrangements had to be made to direct the fairly heavy flow of traffic through the area.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 8
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75BROKEN WATER PIPE CAUSES FLOODING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22825, 21 December 1948, Page 8
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