OLD WELL EXPOSED
USED FOR MASTERTON’S FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL. SURPRISE FOR LORRY DRIVER. A gaping hole, five or six feet across, which appeared suddenly this morning beneath the rear portion of a lorry at. the back of the Drill Hall, provided -an unpleasant surprise, for the driver, who / found the back of his truck partly in the hole. The lorry, belonging to Messrs Fly and Young, was about to back to the stage door of the Opera House, to take away, a grand piano used there last night at the orchestral concert. The hole showed that the roofing of an old well had fallen in, after having remained hidden for a considerable number of years. The well thus cnee again exposed to view was that which supplied Masterton’s first public school with water. Mr Charles Bannister, who had a look at the well this morning, said the school was erected by the pioneers In 1864 and the well was on the west side of the building, about a chain away from it. Needless to say, the water, which was procured by a, bucket on a rope, was excellent for drinking. It must be many years since the well last saw the light of day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 4
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204OLD WELL EXPOSED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1939, Page 4
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