Correspondence. The School Water Supply.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3368, 23 November 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

The School Water Supply.

TO THE EDITOII. Sin, —1 wish to cull your nttenli 0 the way public money is wasti mil also to injustice and borcottir About live years n»o I lixed Abyssinian pump at tlio public scho vluch pump has given a good Bup| if water, and also of the best quuli ivcr since. About three years a Messrs Howard and Williams fix mother pump at a distance of six f< Yoin the other to supply water for t )ovb. Now, sir, this pump has fail ,o supply good water, and in fact, A .n» the summer months to give a it all. Now, sir, Mr Kenall offers ;ive water which menus an outlay iovly or fifty pounds, So the Co mitteo send to Wellington a saw] )f water from Howard's pump, ut lonscqueiitly all the drinking wal it tho School is condemned as un for use, So much for the beginning my chargo, now for the finish, yesterday's Daily I find reporti proposed by Mr McEwen, second by Mr Daniell, that Mr Pickerin tender of £56 be accepted, No jir, I call this a great injustice to t tradesmen, With all duo respect Mr Pickering I may inform you tin are other plumbers in Mastercon competent to do this work, or a other work m the business, as' Pickering, and they should have h a chance to tonder for public mone in fact, I question if what the Co mitteo havo done is legal, Furth 1 will guarantee to get them go water at any spot pointed out at t school play ground, and a lasti supply for £-1 each pump. lam i S, KINODON, Plumber, Maslerk November 23rd, 1889.