CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1084, 8 June 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

.-o; [We do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by our correspondents.'] THE WATER SUPPLY $ DRAINAGE SCHEMES. TO TUB EDITOR. Str, —If the Borough Council, instead of propounding magnificent and expensive schemes for supplying the town of Gisborne with water, which schemes without others of a like nature for drainage, would be useless, were to have three or four large concrete tanks, capable of holding say 15,000 gallons each, placed close to some of the large buildings in the centre of the town, and a reservoir situated at a convenient place in connection with them, the rainy season would give the town an abundant supply of rain water, which could be utilised for all purposes. The Borough is too young to go in for the heavy expense which would fce entailed

by costly schemes of water supply and drainage such us those proposed, and- until some thorough attempt to procure water in the town by boring on the artesian principle has been found to fail, the consideration of schemes for bringing water from a distance should be postponed. There are parts of the world where the inhabitants are perforce wholly dependenton the rainy season for their water supply, and, if for a temporary expedient, the suggestion of utilising the rain water here was adopted until the town increased somewhat more in population and wealth, the result then could only be to throw the additional expense on ratepayers more able to bear the burden when the question of increased water supply cropped up. Had such receptacles for the rain water been in readiness what a supply could have been obtained in Gisborne even during the last few davs —I am, CONCRETE.