AWKWARD EEL TRAP.
On the eastern side of Wellington Harbour the residents still have to put up with make-shifts in soino ol their domestic arrangements. One of them could not get the water tap to run the other morning. His supply • omes from a stream in the hills at :]ie hack of the house, and in oidei to (hid out what was wrong lie traced the pipe hack from the house to the creek. At length lie found it blocked at the top-cock, and alter unscrewing it he found an cel aliout 2ft long blocking up the pipe. Before the visitor could he got out, tho pipe had to lie chopped in half—chopped because the Easterner had no suitable tools to deal with the situation in a plumber-like manner.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1929, Page 8
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129AWKWARD EEL TRAP. Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1929, Page 8
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