CORRESPONDENCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 4, 18 June 1898, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

Conespondents' opinions aie not necessarily ours.

(to the kditoil) Sib, — I should like to ask our Borough Council, through the medium of your columns, the following questions about the proposed water supply. Will the Council gAiaiantee that the water oan be biought in tor £8000 or £9000, that the lates will not exceed one shilling in the £ Mid that the water will be better than oui well water ? Will it be put in all the streets, and will all the burgesses have it laid on to their houses ? If not, will those ratepayeis who get no water be compelled to pay for what they have not got, and will it make their insuiance lighter ? I also see by some letters in your local contempoiaiy that the greatest bugbear they can bring into the question is typhoid fever, which does not exist in the town at present, and all the cases that have been in the Waimate Hospital lately have been from the countiy. Eighteen or nineteen years ago, I am not sure of a year or two, the fever was very bad. There was plenty of water then, also plenty of rotten wood in the water and plenty of rubbish floating about in the atmosphere for either fever oi cioup. As to the percolation into the wells from the surface, that is rubbish and bunkum, for all the wells I know in Waimate aie for the first six or eight feet solid clay, and water can't get through that. But the wells are fed from the creek, and when the cieek is high so are the wells. — I am, yours, etc., RATEPAYER. [We have omitted an irrelevant personal allusion, the person alluded to being in no way connected with the water question. — Ed.]

A boy stood on the railway track, He heard the whistle squeal ; •* * ♦ * The engineer got slowly down And scraped him off the wheel.