WATER SUPPLY QUESTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 100, 10 September 1901, Page 3

WATER SUPPLY QUESTION.

m tO THE BDMOR. ft gni,—for the life of me I can't see I 'objections Dr Symes can have to I Se wa t«r supply beiDg brought in from I rjoj'g Creek. I fail te see why the I not as good as, or better than, I of the town supplies I know of. I } ( te i« »otning in the ctafk to pollute j| ~„«•>!•, except dead timber which can 1 „,:i- y ik-novtd from the creek bed. || |, e *a':o! can bo easily brought down in if , : ,h-nw:-.£e pip*" in * direct line along ;| iji wA b-tnk of the creek to the head :| J t i,r-ecvoiron Mr O'Brien's land. I §| ijt tui-, supply quite sufficient for I I'vtfii"; for, at lea* 50 years. A tit m ,i! rt.-vt.ij>, running night and day I r - t h g-.o«i storuge, will supply a large I! ' m It is simply malness to think of musias wat * r oat ** th * '' V * raRO " Ter |l Mr A. MoLean's, as the riverbed at K is place must fee 40 or «0 feet below , town. Beside* the south river is iUy polluted with lime, Hgnito and m , to say nothing about the sheep dipt w i;sbinkß, which are usually emptied (to tbe river to give the £sh a feed. No mebutafool would think of ou aping rtter * hun it could be *ot by natural priusion. Water coald also be brought &0 the town from the North Waibao

,h£D required, and this river is pure and aaion a slate bott'tn from its source to .place a little b-lnw the black swamp. Ihrre sre many creeks and dams in the eoautry that country people are obliged louse for all purposes that are not fit for ,pi g towsll.win. Most of the people Bath in Waimata and in the country are ut j cireless about their water. They hire no protection at the top of the wells

jo prevent worms and snaiU from getting Into the wells. Whan any quantity of Din falls you are euro to get a few buckets of snails and worms down the nils, »aying nothing of them being used bf catching rats and mice. Besides this, th-r« are a lot of old wells l&at a*e used for oss pools. This ii ijery saving upon tk« water supply. If you pour the s;th 4a«n one hole and pull it np again with

\\i well water horses and cows refuse to flrink it. And a cow will drink dish •rashugs, U* tli-ipi and soap suds when they »re nice and fresh. These cows ATO nioe strong batter, one p <und of it Till Ja»t twelve men for a fortnight. Cheap butter for camps this.—lam, etc., Fair Dujxam,

TO THB BSITOR. Si*,—The question of Keloy's Bush as Burca of onr water supply, is, of coarse, OT t of the question now that the Health Officer h** decided *3*:a»t ifc, «o thure it to USB discussing that scheme further. I wis Ulking to Dr Symea, and though he did not bay eo, he implied that if we did Sot go io for » water aupply the Healh D,p.irtm«it would make ua do bo. That itiDg ao, we h-.ve only to decide on our icherae and bring in the water. I nan« »y I objaot to the everlasting expense of pumpi g wbenxwe can get water without Dr Symet* scheme would take nearly four mile* of iron pipes, and it ia tht-se, tf coarse, which moke a supply co«tly. Sriiiging the water from Waihao Fork* imaithenware pipe* to che hill at the foek of the rifle range, and from a roeer fjir there into the t>wn, teems to me the lust scheme :ai*& the cbeapeafc. The Borough Council Bhouid take you. wggeation and aak for competitive fetimates, paying the successful one.— lam, etc.. Box Task,