VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 459, 18 March 1909, Page 7

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

WATER SUPPLY AND FIRE RISK. Y ol > H ,? ast presided at a meeting of tho V ictoria College Council held last evening. Jho chief item of interest was a letter cceivod from Protesscr Mackenzie, informing .no council that for several hours each day the water supply for the college was cntnolj cut 01.. In case of an outbreak of fire four or five minutes' use of the hose would exhaust the water stored in the college roser- ,°" tl!0 W1! abovo tile building) and he urged the council to bung the matter betoro "tho sleepy authorises ot tho city." The council decided, discussion, to instruct the rocistiai (Mr. PowJss) to write to the City Council miormmg that body of the matter, and asking it t0 do everything possible to remedy the existing state of affairs. r . ( A w r s a '-j° received from Sir Robert otout informing the council that he would bo absent from tno Dominion for eight or nine months, and ha would not, in bo bacj; in time for the next election, but he h^'to-W 3 tT°" tntur ",*'!?-? t0 asain resume V fix at tho council. The council received the letter with regret. i ".ccnou wlT 3 ' received from tho pro.esbo.s complaining of the lack of accom-' modation provided for them at tho collere S. rcfCrred t0 2 Snwll

V - he CUtting 0,1 ° f <, 1 \ t V e City Lngmecr stated that it wi'c only during the busiest part of the day that the water would r.ct reach to the collare" level Ho was preparing a report on the hWi-levols watei supply, which would bo considered cisidertl imatoS f ° r th ° C6niiU2 > ca ™