WATER SHORTAGE.
DOMESTIC SUPPLY ON PLAINS* CARTING AND SELLING. An acute shortage of water for household purposes is being experienced on those parts of the Hauraki Plains outside the Water supply area on account of. the absence of rain since Christmas Eve. The positioni is being met in many cases b'y carting supplies from the water-main at Ngatea or from the well near the police station at Kerepeelii. Waggon-loads of milk or cream cans are being utilised, and one enterprising carrier has had a tank and pump fitted on to his truck, with the idea of carting water from Ngatea to the Turua and Kopuarahi districts. There is ample water available in the district supplied fram the Waitakaruru Stream, and a gauging at the dam recently shewed, that about 154,000 gallons were passing over the spillway daily. Everywhere the absence of rain is the subject of discussion. In the Ngatea-Pipiroa-Wa ! - takaruru area it takets the form of. commending the water supply scheme, and in the other parts of the Plains it is the desirability of a supply.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5231, 25 January 1928, Page 2
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177WATER SHORTAGE. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5231, 25 January 1928, Page 2
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