WATER SUPPLY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3078, 9 May 1881, Page 2

WATER SUPPLY.

("To the Editoe op the Daily Teiegbaph.] Sib, —Mr Swan's letter does riot improve his position. He no doubt finds it easier to pronounce your opinion to be wrong than to prove that his own is right. He asserts that the present contract will not complete the drainage scheme, and states that three or four more contracts are yet to be let for which no plans are yet prepared. If there are no further plans, is it not reasonable to think the scheme completed with the present contract ? *■■ Why also does not Mr Swan 6x a definite number of contracts. ? If three or four, why not more, why not less P Whose plan is Mr Swan following, and whose estimate of cost? Was not Mr Bell'M estimate about £8000 ? If the Councillors altered the plan so materially as to enormously increase its cost they can also declare it completed. In truth the drainage scheme, seems very undefined. Already a large amount in excess of the estimate has been spent, and it is high time to stop further expense until it can " be ascertained whether the scheme will be of any value whatever. The drainage of Napier was undertaken twenty years too soon. Water is an immediate necessity, but the drainage would have done at a future time—a time when perhaps Mr Swan, like Hamlet's father, would be sojourning in a region through which no l cooling streams are said to flow.—l am, &c, " ;.. RESIDENT. May 9, 1881.