WARNING OF FLOODS
DEVICE ON MANAWATU RIVER Press Association PALMERSTON N., Thursday. An electrical flood recorder costing £550 was installed in the Manawatu River to-day by the Manawatu-Uroua River Board. The apparatus is the first °f its kind to be used in Australia or New Zealand. A float in a concrete column actuates a recorder in the post office, a mile away, and when the danger level is reached the post office authorities unL dertake to warn the threatened districts. A similar instrument will later H in the Oroua River at K i eliding.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 16
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94WARNING OF FLOODS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 613, 15 March 1929, Page 16
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