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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3203, 13 May 1889, Page 2

It is really high time that something -was done to oontrol the rivulet which has been led through the town for fire extinguishing purposes. We allude to the matter in all kindliness, and simply in the interests of those who are.sofrefjupptly inconvenienced by it. On Friday and Saturday nights, for instance, the stream ' assuthed' more than, double its usual proportions,

It got to'. the.neigbborii ood of Vjllastreet in its'; ordinary obannol, and thentook- possession of the footpath, it tan on to the middle of Hall-street and once mora sliowedits proportions, so that pedestrians had either to wade through or jump . over the channel, At the . Post Office corner it, not only took possession of the footpath, but of the whole width of the street, just at the most important crossing in the whole town, For some unknown reason a grating has been put in at the corner alluded to, which catches all the rubbish that comes down, so that overflows are of almost daily occurence. There is not another grating all the way up to the mill race, so that the one we have mention : must, naturally become frequontly blocM If a grating were put in at a spot where the channel is deep some distance higher up, the nuisance would be avoided, At the same time, it is necessary to control the. inlet so that only a certain quantity of water oan come down,'"