THE WATER WORKS COMPANY AND THE GOVERNMENT.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2359, 24 October 1870, Page 2

THE WATER WORKS COMPANY AND THE GOVERNMENT.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —In common with many other citizens, I am entirely debarred from the enjoyment of the present really magnificent weather by consciousness of empty water-tanks and parched-up garden plants. Some of us have appealed to the directors of the Water Works Company, hut are told that they cannot help ns, owing to want of funds arising out of some unfortunate dispute between the Company and the Government. We feel this specially annoying, because in most instances it requires but a few chains of pipes to cancel our dwellings with tbc ‘ ompany’s Drains, which already come most provokingly near, hut unfortunately not near enough to be of service to us. Under these circumstances, I am induced to suggest that either the directors themselves, or some one else who may he presumed to ho well posted up in the merits of the dispute, would just take the trouble to put before the public in an undcrstaudah'c form, that the public at large may be able to form an idea of who is to I dame, for that blame of a very serious character attaches to some party or parties I am confident. The thing appears to he simply preposterous. Before the Company’s mains were laid on in our neighborhood wc bad the benefit of certain public pumps, which stood us in good stead ; but now they arc removed, and after begging year after year to be connected

with the Company’s mains, we are told that the Company’s hands are tied by some fortunate dispute that nobody seems to kno anything about. . , It seems to me that no time should be lose in this matter, as not only the comfort, but even the health and well-being of the community at large, are involved. Yours, &c., A SUFFERER FROM THE DROUGHT. Dunedin, October 24.