WATERLESS WELLINGTON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 39, 21 January 1916, Page 8

WATERLESS WELLINGTON.

the position serious. _____ Per Press Association. Wellington, January 20. For two days the greater part of Wellington has been without the usual water supply, only such sections about the centre of the city as are connected with the Karori reservoir being free from, the disabilities attending this form of “dryness.” The big Wainui-o-mata dams are full, and the city engineer estimates that over 250,000 i gallons every hour, or seven million | gallons dnil y, are entering the mums, .’cl, none reaches Wellington. I Somowhen.- along the lourteen miles of pipe line i-hciv must ho an enormous leak, yet. so far, up trace has been discovered, though the engineer’s staff is making diligent investigation. This extraordinary disappearance is veiled in complete mystery. Meantime the plight of many people is becoming serious. Water carts and the tramway sprinklers are being used to supply Lyall Bay and other parts with water for domestic purposes, but with the possibility of an indefinite continuance of the shortage, the outlook is had for industrial as well as household consumers.