FIRE-FIGHTING PLANT
TURNED TO NEW USE (From Our Own Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, To-day. That a fire engine can serve more purposes than one was disclosed in Palmerston North on Thursday last, when the pumping plant attached to one of the engines which does duty for the ratepayers was brought into action to pump out the rain-water and seepage from the foundations of a building which will a few months hence prove a worthy addition to the edifices of the town. The foundations, which are of no mean depth, proved an excellent catchment area for the draining water from the surrounding properties, and the flooding threatening to put a halt to the work of construction. Manual pumps proved insufficient to make any material inroad upon the fast-gather-ing waters and as a last resource the services of the fire-fighting plant w*ere enlisted with appreciable results, and the threatened foregoing of their Good Friday holiday by the workmen was avoided.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 April 1927, Page 5
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157FIRE-FIGHTING PLANT Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 April 1927, Page 5
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