LYTTELTON WATER SUPPLY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1870, 20 February 1880, Page 3

LYTTELTON WATER SUPPLY.

To the Editor of the Olobe. Slß,——ln your Wednesday’s I read that the Lyttelton Borough Council at its meeting ou Monday night went into committee upon the high-level water supply business, but whether it ever -out again is left to the conjecture of the reader. Now, it matters, sir, little perhaps to some, but if you will allow me, sir, I should much like to tell the councillors straight that there is altogether too much mysteriousness connected with the transaction by them of public business. It is months, sir, since we were told that the supply of water, to about 300 families —my own dear eleven amongst them—living on the so-called high level, had become an established reality. But what are the facts? Spring came and passed, and summer is pretty nigh through, and not a drop of this high-level supply has yet reached our doors. Perhaps those who can afford to give out their washing will smile ; but if they had to drag from ten to twenty buckets of the. coveted fluid up the side of a mountain half a mile before breakfast every morning or evening, their frowns would be as black as their neighbors’. Messrs Scott Brothers supplied a p- mp, and there was a good deal of talk about encouraging local pump-industry. That’s what we were first told by the newspapers. Then Mr H. B. Webb, who lives near the pump—my husband says —took out a “ conjunction,” or said he would. Now that’s all we know of it, except it seems, we are as far from getting any water as ever, and we are put to all sorts of straights for water. It’s shameful the way we have been used—what between promises, reports, trials, engineers, and “ conjunctions,” my husband says there have been more inquests held on that pump than Dr. Coward ever dreamt of, and yet our Council must again “go into committee.” Mr Editor, I’ll say no more, but by the——there, I’ve done. No more from Tours, &0., SOPHIA PUMPKIN. Lyttelton, February 19th, 1880.