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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1098, 11 July 1882, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOR. Ormond, 4th J uly, 1882. Sir, —I notice by your paper of this date, that the ratepayers of Gisborne have voted against the £25,000 loan for water supply, and I think wisely as being too costly at present. There is a far less expensive way for supplying Gisborne with water. The way I proposed when a member of the old Poverty Bay Highway Board some years ago, namely, to erect falls either across the Taruheru or Waimata streams some little distance above the town, and by doing so turning a useless saltwater stream into a beautiful freshwater river. The Waimata’s would bo the best water. The way I would propose to supply Gisborne with water after the falls were erected would be to build a Reservoir on the hill overlooking the town, on Mr Barker’s run, and pump the water into it by steam power. Pipes could be laid then from the Reservoir to any part of the town, and you would have as high a pressure as any water supply in New Zealand. The working expenses would be very small for supplying water into the Reservoir, namely, one man to attend to the works, and drive the engine. I am sure that by the way I propose a splendid supply of good water could be delivered in Gisborne at one-third of the amount proposed to raise for a water supply. I can remember when the City of Melbourne, in Victoria, was for years supplied with water from the River Yarra in the same way as I propose, namely, by putting a fall across, and at the same time turning a useless saltwater stream into a beautiful freshwater river.—Yours, &c., S. C. Caviton.