WATER FAMINE.
ffit, I■ ' l ■ - ♦ By Tologrnph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Juno 20. Altogether ovor ’OOOO toon are idle at Broken Hill. Tho Government have taken . moiisuvr.i to relievo'any ene.:- rd ~ . distress.■; . , .. Including the smelting works and snip, ping interacts in South Australia, 40,000 people 1 are directiy s.ffectod in tho two Stated. : ■/"The first wator train from South Australia arrived yesterday. Tho Council took charge, soiling to tho residents at five shillings per hundred gallons. The muni . - cipal baths .are being used as storage -re servoir3. Tho engineer wires stating tha, thero is still four million gallons in the ' town reservoirs. He expected to have too auxiliary pumps all ready to day, In;' promises nothing definite. Further rain making experiments will bo made on an exu-naiv- scale t - morrow. So far they have been Quito u faiiuro. , \ ■ Tlio Propriotary Company has a fort night’s supply of oro ut Port Pins smelting wo!lts. If they arc compelled to closo twelvo hundred men will be idle, besides one hundred ongagwl in the ship tuonts of oro and at the limestone quarries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 926, 26 June 1903, Page 3
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