FRESH WATER.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 333, 18 December 1865, Page 2

FRESH WATER.

During the dry summer months no town in New Zealand is so badly off for this, one of the first necessaries of life, as Napier. Very many of its inhabitants depend on the rain fall for their supply, but it too frequently hap, pens that, however large their tanks, or numerous their butts may be, the hot dry weather has not passed before they find their supplies exhausted. Napier, too, we believe, is the only town in the Colony in which water is carried round for sale; but there are many here who are forced to purchase the whole of their supplies ; and yet Napier is by no means deficient in springs, which abound at the foot of the limestone formation of Scinde Island; and, indeed, from some of which a great portion of the town and shipping is supplied. The water procured from these springs is beautifully clear and pure—its only drawback being its hardness, arising from its containing a salt of lime in solution” But a correspondent has informed us that there is, in the immediate neighborhood of Hastings-road a source of supply, of almost unlimited extent, and of great softness and purify. We have before this had occasion to direct the attention of the public to this fact; and we really believe that something should be done by the Government to render the blessing of a good supply of a pure water available to the inhabitants of fhe town, who are at present often great sufferers from its deficiency. Our corresj on lenl's letter will appear in our next.