ABATTOIR WATER SUPPLY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 4

ABATTOIR WATER SUPPLY.

The Mayor and Councillors are to be congratulated upon the promptitude with which they have dealt with the abattoir water supply difficulty. The trouble is an old standing one, which the last Council faced in a manner which ran more in the direction of economy than practical utility. It set up a couple of 400-gallon tanks with the hope that that would provide a never-failing supply; but ere long it was found that a storage capacity of 800 gallons would prove inadequate should there be a dry season, and latterly i-he danger of a failingl supply became so pronounced that it was deemed desirable to take prompt measures to avert what would prove a very serious condition of affairs. At the last ordinary meeting of the Borough Council held a few evenings ago a committee consisting of the Mayor and Crs Haughey and Morris was appointed to investigate and report upon the whole-subject. On Saturday last the Committee visited the locality, and yesterday made its report to the Council, recommending the construction of a 20,000-gallon storage tank. The report was adopted. As the work -is to be proceeded with immediately all frars of a failure of the abattoir water supply may now be said to he at an end. We could wish that tha Council were as prompt to deal with the sewage extension question as it has been with this minor one. That budy would earn lor itself the approbation of the ratepayers who now suffer from lack of proper sanitary provision, and would have the satisfaction of knowing that it was adopting a course that would minimise the danger of an epidemic fever outbreak in the borough.