OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 4

OTHER PEOPLE’S IDEAS

LANSDOWNE WATER SUPPLY (To the Editor.) Sir—ln a paragraph in your issue of November 18, Masterton residents are warned "in their own interests against using water indiscriminately. In the Lansdowne area the pressure of water is already very low.” There is no call for residents of Masterton to be pinched in any tvay for water, when the overflow from the Opaki water supply is allowed to go to waste through Lansdowne. This water comes direct from the Ruamahanga River, and can be had in any quantity. The existing channel could hold four times the amount ever allowed in it. At a very trifling cost Masterton could get an auxiliary sup.ply of water so that residents would never feel a shortage although the town grew to double its present size.—■ I am., etc., I. LENNIE. Masterton. November 20. The Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, to whom the above letter was referred, said the water race and intake referred to were originally used to supply Lansdowne with water. The water was led into Maunsell’s Dam, which broke away in 1924. It is an open race passing through numerous farm properties and was never considered a very satisfactory source of supply, owing to the fact that farmers have a call on the race for irrigation and supplying stock. On many occasions when Lansdowne was supplied with water from this source dead stock had to be removed from the race. The pollution that takes place along this race is of such a nature that it renders the water, in the opinion of the Health Department, totally unsatisfactory.