SHANNON-FOXTON WATER SUPPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1005, 15 June 1911, Page 4

SHANNON-FOXTON WATER SUPPLY.

If Shannon’s representatives can arrange with the Foxton Borough Council a mutually satisfactory scheme for a high-pressure water supply, the citizens of both places will have cause for ieeling satisfied (says Saturday’s Horowhenua Chronicle). That a town of Foxton’s size and importance should have gone on as long as it has done with only primitive water resources reflects discredit upon its previous administrative heads, and gives reason for extending hearty congratulations to Foxton’s civic fathers of. to-day on their more up-to-date outlook. The present negotiations with Shannon probably will lead to a workable scheme being evolved and carried out ; so it seems likely that Levin's surplus water supply still must go unutilised. The executive heads of Levin until very lately had some hopes that the abandoned negotiations between Foxton and Levin municipal councils would be resumed at some later date, but evidently the seacoast town representatives have abandoned all idea ot so doing. Perhaps it is as well for Levin that they have done so. The proposed yearly subsidy on account of water supply which Foxton was to have paid Levin would have been very beneficial to the inland town’s finances, but to a town whose future prosperity and numerical increases are as assured us Levin’s are the years may have been not tar distant in which the undertaking to supply Foxton with water would have proved both irksome and burdensome. In any event, Foxton is well-entitled to make whatever arrangements best suit her ; and, meanwhile, Shannon is to be congratulated upon having the chance to participate in the scheme and to gain by it. All tbat Shannon’s representatives need to do is to be caielul they do not pay too much for their waterwhistle.