WATER MAIN BURSTS
DAMAGE TO, PREMISES .
Damage estimated at about £2CiO was done when a water main Shortland Street a bout ° c 0 . yesterday morning. Increased P l ®* 8 "? for a fire in Grey'is Avenue b urs t . pipe, which had beun leaking for days, and a jet"of water about high broke through the pavein .. Much of the water fell on tlie_ro - the building occupied by Geo. W. _ ton and Company, Limited, aD^® wit [j down-pipes were unable to copp ■ _ . the volume, the water seeped dow. walls, damaging chemicals and tific instruments. The stock was sured in the London Office. In bQ( - joining premises of Klomfield Company, Limited, a quanti 7.stationery was saturated.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22435, 3 June 1936, Page 12
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