Tanks on the Move

Watties, the canned and frozen food people, have decided to make extensions to their factory. But on the site of the new building there stood half a dozen big concrete tanks, each weighing 2 to 15 tons when empty, each capable of holding 10,000 gallons of water for an emergency supply in the dry season.

To move the tanks a few feet to a new site adjacent to the Turang-anui River, they had to be taken right round the block, one by one.

The big, top-heavy tanks swayed alarmingly on some of the more tortuous parts of the journey, but all made it safely.

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Rounding the corner by the Turanganui Hotel

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Nearly in the drink

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The tanks in the new location. Formerly they stood further back in gap at left.