FLOODED.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 467, 27 March 1909, Page 5

FLOODED.

MISHAP IN ME. GEORGE WINDER'S BUILDING. When the first of Mr. Geo. Winder's assistants opened up the new shop at tho corner of Manners Street and Cuba Street yesterday morning nt 8 o'clock, the greater part of the ground floor was found to bo ilooded, and water was streaming down from tho stamped steel ceiling overhead. The water was spilling itself from twenty places over a miscellaneous stock of hardware, household goods, and tools of various kinds, and tho floor in that part of the shop that flanks lower Cuba Street, was awash. Investigation proved that tho source of tho trouble was a running water-pipe in Dr. Rayiier's dental surgery overhead. In a tiled-floor apartment, containing an operating chair and all appliances peculiar to tho profession, a rubber tube which conveys water from a pipe to tho dental spittoon upon a level with the patient's head, had been blown off tho pipe-end near the floor during the night, and tho water had. been running possibly lor nmo or t<m mm - Boyond soaking tho carpets and linoleum felt in tho hall and adjoining rooms of Dr. Rayner's suite,' little damage was dono on the first floor. Down below, Mr. Winder's vast warchouso was more unfortunate. Apart from tho shop being awash, tho water had found its way through tho floorseams into tho cellar, which contained about six inches of water at 8 a.m. yesterday. Worst of all it had poured down on to a stack of nearly 1000 cases of nails, the greater number of which Mr. Winder anticipates will bo damaged by rust. On inquiry, n Dominiom representative learned .from Nurse Hoyes that she had left tho building at about 9.30 on Thursday evening, at whioh timo everything in the surgical rooms was in good order, and the water was turned off at tho spittoon end of the tube. Tho cause of tho tubo being blown off was doubtless the henry presmiro experienced during tho night hours. Dr. Raynor is at present in Auckland. A similar accident occurred in Mr. Robert Hannah's boot factory on Lambton Quay about three years ago. On that occasion a tap on tho top floor had by accident been left running the night before, and the water bad dripped from floor to floor, damaging a considerable quantity of goods.