THE WATERWORKS
MEN FOR REPAIR WORK
The foreman for the Wanganui Spiral Steel Pipe Company, Mr. A. Laird, was busy yesterday engaging workmen for the repairs to the pipe line at the Te Ar-ai creek. A gang or 25 men will -go out to-day, and everything will be got ready to start the repair work on Monday, Operations will he commenced towards the mouth of the gorge and will extend upwards, the intention being to reinstate the 15-inch pipe line to the’auxiliary intake, a work which will not, except for a couple of interruptions of an hour or two’s duration, and which will occur at night time, interfere with the continuity of the town supply. A 9-inch pipe between the headwords and the pressure tank will bo restoied and the service will again be coupled up. Amongst the jobs to be afterwards undertaken will be the construction of a second break-pressure tank, to bring the pressure down to the amount agreed to, on a fiat near Mr. Parker’s cottage, and adjacent to Flood’s crossing. The number of men employed will be increased as operations are carried on. The necessary material is already on the ground. The repairing work on the 15-inch main to be carried out is on a piece of about a mile in length along the top of the main. ______
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2371, 11 December 1908, Page 4
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222THE WATERWORKS Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2371, 11 December 1908, Page 4
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