BURST MAINS
BUT MYSTERIOUS WATER
, (By "The Posts Special. Reporter.) ■ NAPIER, sth February. Everywhere in Napier and the surrounding country there are pools of water where there was none before. It has not rained,1 but the water has come in some instances from burst pipes; and in others from below in some mysterious way. Where there are no pipes the -water has come quite frequently to the surface. When a main has burst, there is no mistaking the result. On the racecourse there is a ■ lake covering fully; half .of the grounds.' It is extraordinary .how the water has been forced to the top in some places, evidently b T the earthquake.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 11
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112BURST MAINS Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1931, Page 11
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