STREET WATERING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 221, 30 December 1910, Page 5

STREET WATERING

AN INGENIOUS DEVICE,

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Wednesday. A new device for street-watering was exhibited in Manchester street this morning by the inventor. The apparatus consisted of a line of pipes elevated on telegraph poles, and fitted with a number of perforated' sprinklers, plaeed at regular spaces from one aaother. The water was led up to the elevated pipes from the high-pressure supply by means of a hydrant and hose. Sprinklers threw the water, across the street, distributing it uniformly over the road surface, much as would be done by a heavy shower of rain. The idea offered by the inventor apparently was that pipes should be similarly laid throughout the city, when watering could be done by the simple operation of turning on the supply, leaving the elevated sprinklers to do the rest. The City Surveyor (Mr. A. Dudley Dobson) witnessed the trial. He remarked to a reporter that the apparatus did the watering well enough, but there would be some difficulty, if it were adopted in the principal strets, of getting the thoroughfares cleared of traffic before periodical waterings took place.