A GREAT EXPERIMENT
RECORD AT ORONGORONGO. (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 24. At Orongorongo to-day, Mayor Bright performed the ceremony of turning on water from the Orongorongo stream into the Wainui stream, thus providing assured ample water supply for the city and suburbs for many years to come. Many congratulatory speeches were made. Mr. Robert Semple, who was the head of the party who carried out the work under the co-operative principle, the price being £6 14s per foot, said Australian and New Zealand records had been broken in the matter of speed—possibly a world’s record. He stated that the cost of the work was £150,000 and payments to the party amounted to £70,000.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 5
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114A GREAT EXPERIMENT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 5
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