CITY WATER SERVICE
FURTHER TESTS. IPnrtiiqr teste of the city water ser-vice-were mad© .by the Fire Brigade last evening, in the presence of the Mayor and "several City (Councillors. The first test -was in Brook-street, where the 7-inch high-level main gave a pressure of 1301b to the square inch, enabling strong, jets to be secured with two leads of hoee. The 8-inch main in the vicinity, which comes from the big dam, gave a pressure of 80 lbs. From the 3-inch main-in Nile-street East, opposite nui-House, a.pressure of .80 lbs was obtained, this r dead, end, was conaideredAeatisiactory-.tthough the volume . ofc water wast «msilL.* •*, .vAt. the junction of .and Waimea streets a pressuTd'oi r -92i>lbgywas• obtained-"from the-big danr»ian& 106 lbsfrom-' the weir. The "best pressure was secured a little further up "Waimea street, opposite Baigent's timber yard,Avhere, with the weir in commission and the Port district cut out, the gauge read 170 lbs.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 March 1918, Page 5
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153CITY WATER SERVICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 52, 1 March 1918, Page 5
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