WATER MAIN BURSTS.
BREAK IN NEW HUTT ROAD. Farther evidence that the 24m. water main from Wainui to Wellinpton is weakening was forced on householders on Tuesday morritoßp when the taps refused duty The cause waa a burst in the mam lust'beyond Ngahurar.ga. The flow of i water for a time turned the side of the Hutt Road into a brook, until the water was turned off. ■ The burst presented a peculiar spectacle. A huge blister, a foot higb m the , middle, was raised to the bitumen surface ' Of the new road, j.r.d from the central 1 hole forced in the paving, and from the cracks extending from it there spouted a muddy fountain. About half a chain square of the surface will need replacing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18771, 26 July 1924, Page 11
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