NO WATER.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 691, 9 December 1921, Page 5

NO WATER.

COMPLAINT FROM THE HILL. A further complaint relative to the supply of water was communicated to the Borough Council at Its meetingon Monday night bv l a deputation of residents from the Pukekohe Hill. The chief spokesman was Mr C. A. Willis, who stated that the Hill residents had had no water since Thursday, although a better attempt had been made to supply them. He emphasised 1 be great urgnecy of the case, and pointed oua the calamity it meant to fa timers, whose cattle depended on the water supply. The cattle would die of thirst unless water was available. The position was acute, as so many farmers on the Hill depended on the town water to water their stock. The Mayor stated that strong efforts had been made that day to get

water up on the Hill. He assured them that everything possible was being done, and that the supply would be assuured in fourteen days. He regretted they could no* be better served.

Later, the engineer (Mr W, Wyatt) arrived, and said they had been pumping to the Hill that day. When he left hopne that evening the pressure on the Hill was 180 lbs.

The Mayor said that nothing that could be done would be left undone to assure the supply of water. In a fortnight 00 three weeks the water difficulty would be clean beaten.