WATER IN DESERT
N.Z.E.F. Official News Service. CAIRO, October 5. After being detached with a unit of Royal Engineers for two years, a 'New Zealand sapper, Sergeant T. Hick, has returned to the N.Z.E.F. with an interesting account of boring for water in the desert on the Red Sea coast south of the Gulf of Suez and at Juba in the Southern Sudan. This n.e.o.’s unit was rushed to the Western Desert during the critical battles last year, and worked from July to October, boring for water wherever it was most urgently required. The general experience, said Sergeant Hick, was that water was found almost anywhere, though the nearer the borers moved to Cairo the deeper they had to bore. Normally a bore was completed in about 14 days, but through rock it some- „ times took three months. In December last year the New Zealander was sent to Juba to bore for a supply for the con-, voys bringing lubricating oil and other ' war supplies across the Central African road, linking the Congo River with the Nile.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 5
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177WATER IN DESERT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 13, 11 October 1943, Page 5
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