FUEL OIL IN LAKE
Swan And Ducks Coated (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, April 25. The white swan at the Victoria Park lake, Stratford, was a black swan this morning and the ducks were looking sick as the result of about 500 gallons of fuel oil draining from the railway yard into the creek which feeds the lake.
Breakage of a fuel pipe-line, while a locomotive was being refulled near the engine shed, let the oil into the creek through a sump. Fire hydrants were turned on to put more water into the creek to raise the lake level so that the oil, floating on the surface, could drain off over the outlet-spillway. The parks superintendent, Mr E. P. Blanchard, is doing all he can to clean the swan by washing it in soapy water and rinsing it off repeatedly. The ducks are not so badly off they had enough sense to get on to the banks before they were saturated with oil. The swan, however, swam round in it until it was rescued and it is still doubtful if the bird will survive.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19570426.2.121
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
185FUEL OIL IN LAKE Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28261, 26 April 1957, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in