Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1160, 27 September 1882, Page 2

Poverty Bay Standard. Published Every Evening. GISBORNE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1882.

Fortunately for the residents in the Borough of Gisborne the question of water supply, although for a while dormant, has not vanished from sight. In the Borough Council last evening Cr. Clarke brought forward a motion, which was carried after some slight opposition, that the AgentGeneral be requested to supply the Council with particulars regarding the price of iron piping of various sizes, as also the probable freightage from England to this Port. We are earnestly hoping that these significant details will be but the forerunner of a vigorous effort to induce a water supply, Doubtless, again, the cry will Le raised that we must have the drainage system completed before we can utilise a water supply with safety ; which we utterly deny. Doubt Use drainage is a requisite both in a sanitary point of view, ami us a matter of convenience, but to assert that such a system must be complete before a water supply is to be thought of is an argument too puerile to necessitate contradi. trnn. Councillor Clark e and others are of op’• u may be brought into the town at a far less cost than has hitherto been shown as Drubable : ami vonside< the r-m«uhrttb!y the Stiii’ .-.. r-qx.**’’.ally »*vgnr«|<» the pricv «t| M«n- I tvHal. -\t prr-’uut im < the tanks in (•hrijurnu j

well water, or having to carry their water from a long distance. The discomfort arising from the street dust has already begun to make itself unpleasantly felt; and should we have a dry, hot summer, the question of water supply cannot fail to be reviewed in its full strength. We want water, and we sincerely hope the Councillors will give it to us, if it can be procured at anything approaching a reasonable cost.