A SERIOUS PROBLEM
TRENTHAM'S SOAKAGE PITS;' When giving evidence at the Trentham Camp Commission on Saturday, Dr. De Latour said that 'he would like to seo what became of tho soakage water. Did it pollute the wells in the neighbourhood? If it did, that was a serious matter, for tho well water, in addition to its ordinary uses, might bo employed for the cleansing of dairy utensils, and might, therefore, affect the milk drunk by many of the people of the City. Into this serious question he would like an examination made. What, he repeated, became of the 35,000 gallons of polluted water that is put iu the pits there every day, to soak away somewhere?
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 7
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116A SERIOUS PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 7
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