AUTOMATIC WATERING MACHINES AT TRENTHAM.— One of the four new sprinklers recently acquired by the Wellington Racing Club from Australia. They will be operated on the course proper. Taken five hundred feet away from the water valve, these sprinklers automatically wind themselves along the path of the hose, the rate of movement being extremely slow. The sprinkler pipe, in revolving, operates the driving tnechanism. The water Is thrown a distance of forty feet.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 19 (Supplement)
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73AUTOMATIC WATERING MACHINES AT TRENTHAM.—One of the four new sprinklers recently acquired by the Wellington Racing Club from Australia. They will be operated on the course proper. Taken five hundred feet away from the water valve, these sprinklers automatically wind themselves along the path of the hose, the rate of movement being extremely slow. The sprinkler pipe, in revolving, operates the driving tnechanism. The water Is thrown a distance of forty feet. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19451, 15 December 1934, Page 19 (Supplement)
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