STILLING THE WATERS.
Here is a panacea for all elemental disturbances on our stormy coasts. Oil is warranted to allay the agitation and breaking of waves. This is a fact that we ourselves have had occasion to find in a violent storm on the Atlantic. Mr. J. Shields has patented an apparatus for the protection of harbours in the form of a series of tubes fitted with roses or perforated nozzles which are to be placed at the entrance of the harbour and supplied with oil from suitable tanks or reservoirs on land, which could be turned on in stormy weather. The oil, it is intended, should then rise to the surface of the water to protect the harbour from broken seas. We should very much like to see this carried out as a matter of curiosity, as the effect of oil on a stormy sea would be, we fancy, a great deal more than person would anticipate, who had not seen some of its curious effects. — Home News,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3523, 26 August 1880, Page 3
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169STILLING THE WATERS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3523, 26 August 1880, Page 3
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