WATER MAIN BURSTS.
WOOD ELOCKS HEAVED UP. DUE TO TRAFFIC VIBRATION. BASEMENTS OF HOUSES FLOODED (Australian PTess Association.) (Received February 9, JO.IO a.m.) LONDON, February 8. There was another remarkable water-main burst in the West End, apparently due to traffic vibration. Wood blocks were heaved up over a long stretch of roadway at Lancaster Gate, and soon the river was flowing alongside Hyde Park, where the basements of houses rapidly filled, necessitating a. policy of rally to rouse the tenants.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17632, 9 February 1929, Page 7
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