EARTHQUAKE AT THE GASWORKS.
1 , . astonished to rcacl in your paper tins morning the statement that the jlamago done to tlio now gasometer had been attributed to an earthquake in the I'oport of the corporation's-consulting engineer If the representative of the contractors js still in the Dominion, a report from him would, I am sure, enlighten the taxpayers, if not the councillors; and ix>rhaps it might bo got- for less t-lian £1500. An ounce of practice is worth a pound "of thcoiy, even if it comcs from Scotland'. Hoping that it may be ascertained if it was the fault of the contractors, or of tho powers that bo, that necessitates tho squandering of money in this manner,—l am ete.l Not a Gas Exgixeeb. December 23.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14715, 24 December 1909, Page 9
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125EARTHQUAKE AT THE GASWORKS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 14715, 24 December 1909, Page 9
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