CORRESPONDENCE

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2176, 14 September 1920, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

(To Ihe Editor.) Sir. —As the wider and drainage loiin Inis been earried, may I lie allowed lo suggest that about the other steps are taken about the water supply, a trial bore should he pul down to make sure of a good supply of water over the top of the pipe, at the elevation decided upon, as in some other parts of the township at the same level no water is procurable, but at the lower level of the riverbed a good How can be almost guaranteed. lit Christchurch they have had, from a four-inch pipe, a How of lilt) gallons to the minute, but should we have only 100 gallons even, that- would be 144.000 gallons in the 24 hours, and as an average of 10 gallons In each of 2,000 people for their daily consumption would be hut 20.000 gallons, (he three wells promised would be only a waste of good water. I see it is proposed lo make both the high pressure lank and the lower reservoir of the same size, viz., id,0(10 gallons, but would it not lie much cheaper and heller to make the surface lank 100.000 gallons and the one on the towin’ on the hill cnly dO,OOO gallons, as the strength „f the tower and its foundation would reiptire to he much less than the 75,000 gallon one. The water required for domestic purposes is mostly taken before 10 or 1 1 o’clock in the morning, and its the engine would have been pumping for about three or lour hours by about that lime, it could leave the high pressure tank full to the 00.000 gallons, which would lie ample to last till the next morning, even for a much larger township than ours, but should there be an alarm of (ire. the hose would be immediately connected with that tank, but as soon as possible that lank would he cut off. and the engine would pump the water from the 1<K),000 gallon tank direct into the mains, and, of course, give a much greater force in the lire hose. Should the Wider be running into the tank as last as it is pumped out, a much smaller one Hunt the 10(1,000 gallon lank proposed would suffice. When building the engine shed, room could he found Cor it small dynamo and oil engine, for providing electric light for the town lamps, ;ts we have always been one of the worst lighted towns in the Dominion, the gas works being overtaxed, are tin,able lo do belter. We should then lie able lo have a barge arc lamp at the junction of Clyde and Main Streets, which would light most of the business places much belter than they have hitherto been done, and give a good light to travellers going to and from the railway station bn it dark night. The ordinary street electric lamps would do the rest:. Having, ait oil engine would prevent our streets being in darkness should (here he a shortage of (ami; should the steam pipes also he. connected, the same would apply to ;t shortage of oil, only vice ver.-ut. Thanking you,— I am, etc., AQUARIUS.