WESTPORT WATERWORKS.
(PBESS ASSOCIATION TJEXECBAH.) WESTPORT, January 22. The Westport waterworks, which hay? cost übout £20,000, were officially opened to-day. Free trains to the station ad jacent to Poverty Terrace, where the ceremony took place, were provided by the Council, and eeveral hundreds of townspeople availed themselves of CMc opportunity to witness the ceremony. Miss Soanlon, sister of the Mayor, turned on »»ie water. In the course of 'hU speech, the Mayor congratulated Mr Schadich, engineer of 'the waterworks, on the success of hie effortß, and added that he intended to invite the local agents of the fire insurance companies to a public trial of fire extinguishing appliances, and hoped it would result in a reduction of the insurance rate by one-half.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11489, 23 January 1903, Page 6
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