The highly thermal nature of some of the ground through which the trenches for the new Rotorua stormwater drainage system pass, has created some difficulties for borough workmen carrying out the job. Difficulties were not unfofscen and steps arc being taken to safeguard pipes as far as possible from the effects of sulphur and other thermal manifestations. This is being done by surrounding the pipes, which are of a special earthenware preparation, with concrete
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 4
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