STREET WATERING,

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1011, 29 December 1910, Page 4

STREET WATERING,

AN INGENIOUS DEVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Christchurch, December 28. A new .device for stroct-watering was exhibited in Manchester Street tjiis morning,by tho inventor. The apparatus consisted of a line.of pipes elevated on telegraph poles, and fitted with a number of perforated sprinklers, placed at. regular spaces from one another. The water v.as led up to the elevated pipes from the high-pressure supply by means of a hydrant and hose. Sprinklers threw the water across the street, distributing it uniformly over the road surface, much as would be done by a heavy shower of rain.' The idea offered by the inventor apparently was that pipes should lie similarly laid throughout the city, when watering could bo done by the simple operation of turning on tho supply, leaving the elevated sprinklers to do tho rest. Tho City Surveyor (Mr. A. Dudley Dobson) witnessed the trial. He remarked to a reporter that the apparatus did the watering well enough, but there would be some difficulty, "if it were adopted in the principal streets, of getting the thoroughfares cleared of traffic before periodical waterings took place.