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An attendant watches over a stack of stones with sheets of corrugated iron spreading effluent onto it. Treating effluent prior to disposal was not common in the early 1900s – most sewage was pumped out to sea or into rivers without treatment.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, James McAllister Collection (PAColl-3054)
Reference: 1/1-005906; G
by James McAllister
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