WATER FOR FOXTON.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 June 1910, Page 3

WATER FOR FOXTON.

TIIFi LIOVIX SUPPLY PROPOSALS. In a comment on tiho interview with the Mayor lot Levin, which appeared in The Chronicle recently, the Manaw;atu Herald (Koxton) remarks:— IClsewhere in this issue is published an interview with the .Mayor of Levin in respect to the icfusal of the Koxton Borough Council* to become a customer to Levin for its water. Mr Gardone. 1 leased the qimmtity of water likely to he 'taken hy •Koxtnn on an estimate other thian that ,' SU .P~ plied hy Kn</iii"er Cli'ire •uid uid not take 'nto consideraltion the question of drainage. He argued th'at it would hi many years before Koxton would rt'(|iiire twenty million gallons pel ailnum. Koxton Bonough OotMicil says that twenty-seven mllli'on gallons would he required dtranght away. We Agree with Mayor Gardener that tihu k titer naioutift is ovfcvr-estimated, and also, that the Levin jviiitlhoriticv> would he prepared to reduce the cost of supply below sixpence per thousand gallons. We arc i'!.".o prep:u'e:l 't,o adim.it thwb the purity of the water is beyond donht. Further, that Levin will deal ini a very generous insunner in order to meet us. Taking these, and other minor favourable points into con-

si donatio in, we do riot /tlhiak Foxton would be justified iin adding the scheme. Neither do we till ink anything will cnlrno of the Shannon scheme. Fox ton will have to look nca.rer home for it's source of supply —eMlier from airtesian bores or fn:: f in the. Mantavaitu river. Hadi the-rflite-<payers been properly educalbed_ prion to the poll for a loan to a.doin't/ the former sdheme wet venture to sa.y that it Would, have been carried. But the maittar was fo'ken up ini a half-hearted manner by those who are expected >to show rbhte way, backed up iby ibhose who would: onipose anything for tihe advancement of the town iff it means ia small increase in rates. The "data secured, however, is valuable for .reference and it would be money well spent if the Council proceeded with the estimate for the Shian'nton scheme, nnd l also obtained expert opinion in reference to the water from the Manaiwatu. All the jsoitrces of supply would' then 'be (W'toausted, and thd question could l me agarin submitted. to the ratepajprs and a final decision 'arrived at. AWiih -this end in view, ithere wde'ibe noliarm in asoer,tainiin/g Di'ice for tapping its