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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Has anyone come across examples of or the use of timber (possibly bamboo) water pipes by Chinese market gardeners? An example in the Charters Towers museum intrigued me during a recent review of the collections. The pipe is 3 metres long, id 100mm ext diam 135 mm, with male/female connections at the ends. It is in four quarter round pieces that were abutted and apparently bound when in use. <BR>
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Gordon Grimwade<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT COLOR="#790000"><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10.0px'><I>Gordon Grimwade,<BR>
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