WATER SUPPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1052, 4 June 1912, Page 3

WATER SUPPLY.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —It is like locking the stable door alter tbe horse is stolen to write about water and a firs brigade now, but I would once more draw the attention of the citizens to the urgent necessity of taking some steps to secure better protection of property than they have hitherto done in the case of fire. In' previous letters I have shown how important the question is, and how it could have been solved, but instead most extravagant schemes have been attempted to be substituted, but have of course tailed ot completion, through the impossibility of obtaining the necessary funds to carry such gigantic schemes to maturity. Ot course, lam speaking relatively to our small population, because of necessity any such scheme undertaken should be made, as I have said before, a payable one. The engineer the Council appointed to report on water supply and drainage recommended my scheme for water supply as the most practicable under the circumstances. I therefore once more beg to suggest that a trial bore should be put down on the river bauk under the ferry hill, with, ol course, due regard to a reservation of sufficient area for a loo.ouo gallon reservoir and pumping station. A road and embankment could be made as a protection works out of the soil taken from the reservoir. Now, should there be a good flow of good water from a four-inch pipe, then the rest is easy, as there is now an electric pump that will pump any given quantity of water to a height that would .give sufficient pressure of water to supply any town of our size with sufficient to cope with any fire, and supply all our domestic wants. As regards details of drainage, etc., I will write again, but put down the well as soon as possible and test its possF -lities. —I am, etc., A■■ \ crus.