MUNICIPAL SHORTCOMINGS.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 August 1919, Page 5

MUNICIPAL SHORTCOMINGS.

Sir,——The public meeting called for Wednesday night to discuss, inter alia, our water problem is about as opportune «as any local meeting possibly could be. The water supply of this town is 3. public "scandal. Dirty, uncertain, insuificient, it is a standing disgrace to -the powers that‘ were in the past, and if the powers that be do not alter things their time In oifice will quickly be shortened. ‘Let water stand in a Vessel overnight and mud—literally mud—will coat the vessel. Sometimes live germs add to"’its bulk. The Water comes ‘direct’! from the river by a pump (othat sometimes won ’t pump), shavings fromthe mill, refuse from th.e farm, and other quite‘. unimaginable -filth, drain everywhere into’ -rne river, and a filthy supply reaches the public in consequence._ Were it not so serious ‘to publ‘ic~~health "it would be ludicrous. For here we_ha,v‘ef a. position in which the present. oflicers of the town have just found. out the failures of the past regime, and the powers that were, simulate an innocence and _a merit: quite undeserved, and, in addition, another holder of oflice in the years that have gone, demands his own price to supply decent, clean water from God’-“ earth to the people of the Borough. It was time, indeed, that a change occurred and that time will occur again, if some drastic improvement is not made in the quality, as well as the quantity, of the water supply_ ~ ' To revert to tanks Would be a. wise step in the meantime, for the present holders,,~of oflicc have yet to prove themselves capable- of grappling with the question.—-I am, etc., ~ ~.» i. DISGUSTED. (One verbal substitution has been made in the above lett_el'., as it is not: usual to. permit -an overstepping of/the limits.,‘_o_f courtesy in -‘a mere expression for ‘opinion:-—Ed. T.D.T.)., , "