CLIFTON RESERVOIR BURSTS.
TONS OF CONCnKTE HURLED ABOUT.
(Bj TelcjniDli.- -Press Aenoctatlon.* Christchurch, December 9. One-half of (he re.<9orvoir 'at Clil'lon, Sunnier, burst yesterday afternoon, and about 50,(100 gallons of water were lost. Tho force of the water hurled pieces of concreto weighing five tons down tho hill for one hundred and two hundred The burftilie of tho reservoir is attributed to faulty workmanship, aud, according to tho Mayor of Sunnier, it will bo necessary to have the whole of the reservoir rebuilt.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1308, 11 December 1911, Page 4
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83CLIFTON RESERVOIR BURSTS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1308, 11 December 1911, Page 4
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