THE ACTUAL TROUBLE.
DRAIN BLOCKED. ' A NUMBER OF LEAKAGES. ;• .It seems that the aotual trouble with the. drains at Government House was a block'. about' 5 feet long in a section of .pipe.just outside the i building, and not far from the front entrance.. .This has .now been bleared away. It., appears to havo been caused by a.'tin' of some I kind .'- having, got into: the '; drain. Whether the original mischief wag done during the erection' of the residence or. after- its. occupants moved in is • not known. Instructions. have been given that' i'the drains should be thoroughly tested for leakage—a ,precaution. which the 'City Council and all competent'sanitary :authorities insist ,ivpon wherever., thoy. have control, but which was omitted :by the Public Works .Department in tho case of Government. House. The 'testing by, hydraulic pressure', is now ; 'being done by the Public Health Departiment,' and.it will probably take two .or three days more to complete .'it.. It is said-that tho testing -was' undertaken at,the special request of., Lord Islington. . Several leaks liavo been proved to exist in different places, and the work of opening up. the ground to thera exactly aiid repair thorn is. actively going on. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 7
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198THE ACTUAL TROUBLE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 7
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