THE HEAVY WEATHER.
DAMAGE TO WELLINGTON'S WATER
SUPPLY.
[PBESS ASSOCIATION.! WELLINGTON, March 19.
Over 100 feet of the pipe bridge over the Hutb river was washed away, and it is roughly estimated that the repairs to the water mains and bridge will take some weeks. Meanwhile the city will have to rely on the Karori reservoir, which has a storage capacity of 56 millilon gallons. Roughly speaking the daily consunr.ption in the city is 3£ million gallons', but the Council hopes to reduce this to 2 millions during the shortage Already all persjons using water for business purposes have been notified that the supply is to be cut iff or restricted, >k
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9302, 19 March 1907, Page 7
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112THE HEAVY WEATHER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9302, 19 March 1907, Page 7
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