Mr. D. M. Findlay announces that ho has entered into partnership with Mr. D. S. Smith, and the business will in future be carried on at the firm's office under tho style of. "D. 11. Findlay and Smith." Mr. Balfour Broivnc. ICC, urges that the lesson to be learned from such floods as occurred in Lincolnshire and Nottingham just before Christmas is that a scheme should be formulated by which, while training 'the. fury of the floods of winter—by domesticating, as it were, 1 the wild animal-water and holding it in reservoirs—we may have such a deposit as will prevent floods and tide us over periods of dry weather, so turain? what is at present, the curse of rains into the blessings of abundant water supply. This principle has been recognised in all great impounding schemes, but it requires to be carried to higher politics as on economic principle in. relation to .water supply,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 13
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154Untitled Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 11110, 6 May 1911, Page 13
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