City Surveyor to do away with the well and race and substitute cast iron pipes at an estimated cost...
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Month: April, 1887
Evening Post 21 Apr 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Coleman's Tunnel, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0It would have been much better had the cast-iron mains been laid direct to the reservoir, thus dispensing with...
Lyttelton Times 21 Apr 1887
David Johnson / / / History, News, Newspaper, Water Race, Waterworks / 0He is of opinion that the damage to the race has been the result of careless treatment and work...
The committee are pleased to be able to report that there is no grave defect in any part of...
I had little opportunity of examining the reservoir works or the interior of the race, owing to both being...
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