HARBOUR PIPE-LINE
COMPLETION OF REPAIRS WEATHER DELAYS SUBMERSION The minor repairs to the Birkenhead water supply pipe-line, necessitated by the damage done by the rough weather following the attempt to lay the pipe on the harbour Had over a week ago, have now been completed. It had been the intention of the city waterworks engineer, Mr. A. D. Mead, to make a further attempt to submerge the pipeline in the channel this morning, but the continuance of bad weather has prevented that. It is now likely that a further effort will be made early nest week. The pipe-line, which has been taken ashore on the sand flats at the end of Garnet Road, Grey Lynn, suffered very little damage from the buffeting it received in the rough water. In order to bring it ashore, the half-mile of jointed pipe was broken into several sections and tested for leaks. These occurred mainly not as a result of the steel flanges being wrenched from the pipeends, but from the bolts holding these flanges together having the threads stripped. The few flanges which were damaged have been rewelded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21804, 19 May 1934, Page 10
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