TAP LEFT TURNED ON

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 59, 2 December 1937, Page 6

TAP LEFT TURNED ON

•Ou'r Own Correspondent.) 15

Extensive Damage to Hotel in Waipukurau. rooms flooded

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WAIPUKURAU, • This Day. ■ Extensive '-dama^ 3 to 'the Tavistock Hotel, Waipukurau, - was . caused* late yesterday , af ternoon ■ through the care- , less action; of - a; guest in 'lea;ving a tap turned on... Bepairs.io the .water pipes in .town during tfie day caused a stoppage of water, so 'that a. guest yvho turned on a tap* in an upstairs bedroom during the afterhoon found the supply off and f orgot to tuf n vthe "* tap off again, w.th the result "that .when rthe" supply was restored at full pressure "the water soon flooded the hand basin, and before long, the bedroom floor. was covered in water. Tlie flow continued unchecked, with. the. result ' that 'it quickly : seeped through . the ceiling; into ' the ; dihingroom and the lounge'below. The damage to the plaster ceilings alon'e - will -be " heavy. " The carpets in the lounge and dinitLg-rdom'were sodden with' water,- and the' linoleum has had to- he taken up.1 ' The main diningrojom has been- render'ed uhusable, and . a smaller one is now being -used. - It is impossible - yet -to access tue amouht of damage)*, but it'is -expected that the eost of reconditioning the hotel will be heavy an'd Christmas trade may suffer as a" conseqiience.