WATER WORKS.
SERIOUS EFFECTS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyr gb Sydney, June 24.
A special meeting of Cabinet will bo held to-day to discuss the Broken Hill water supply. In the meantime the Government have asked the Council to form a Water Supply Committee to assist Government officials in maintaining a domestic supply. Government trains will be kept running, obtaining a supply from
tho Silverton dam. The engineer at Stephen’s Creek explains that the sudden stoppage was caused by the town service running dry. He hopes when au’xiiiary pumps are started that he will be able to supply the mines, though it wifi be doubtful.
A train with 30,000 gallons of water is expected from South Australia this morning. The Government, have given instructions not to supply any of this water above domestic requirements to the mines for a day or two till the actual position has been defined.
Several mines for the time being are keeping on a number of men at prospecting work, reducing the number idle tc some extent. The Central mine is dry. The Magnetic mine plant is unaffected. The stoppage will have a serious effect on trade in Adelaide, as regards both the demand for supplies and the shipping of ore.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 925, 25 June 1903, Page 2
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