DISLOCATION IN THE CITY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 68

DISLOCATION IN THE CITY.

BURST WATER-PIPE

LEADENHALL STREET CELLARS FLOODED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) c, LONDON, January 10. Shortly after halfpast 8 o’clock yesterday morning considerable dislocation of traffic was caused in Leadenhall street by the bursting of a water pipe. A short section of the roadway outside the building occupied by the New Zealand Shipping Company and the Leadenhall Street 1 ost Office was torn up, and the water rushing along the street flooded it to a depth of a few inches for a distance of aoout 80 yards. The eeljars of the New Zealand Shipping. Company and the Leadenhall Street Post Office were flooded to a depth of two or three feet, and papers tored in the latter building were floating in the water.

Traffic was diverted for about two hours. After inspection hid been made to locate the cause, the electric cable fused in the adjoining building, a seriou . inconvenience on a morning of black fog. but by midday the lights were restored. The post office was closed for the greater part of the morning.