CAMBRIDGE WATER SUPPLY

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1653, 8 February 1883, Page 2

CAMBRIDGE WATER SUPPLY

<;..)>!! „■■ .i- .?,i — n — SiK,-^VVith ,your,,p«nni,a«|pn, I \nu'pose addressing a few words , to , m.y fellow townsmen on the above subject,. ' Tlie remarks of ,some of ,■ ,tj^e i speakers, whp,,addressed the public meeting on 'jtliursday last sjjowed that considerable ,inisapprehension f ejastcd^as'to the' issue- 'on which the poll -will' be takeri r;nrthe/,lsth fnSt., and) this 1 1 anvs'ure Krcrald uot;be the cas© , > ■ were < the' bdard'V 'proposals * moro/.clearly understood, 1 "Th<* ' board 1 contjrids'" tbftfc rV itlusse'ipj'opbfeateirentitles it« ( tot(the.'Vote iarfd Snppoj't'.of'feVery ra-tepayer/'Who.'.de-Jsireij <a' jwater- supply foi/n tlieitown/ > ; The iinesti r mr*bleJb(i9qe9tBtdjbe deriyefl'-frojn a plentiful supply of pure water rio oile.can Idettyj • and» to i "prevent' • any < ti rom< refusing precious boon byr^otiok .against .the loan is the object of this Tetter.; (First, then, I say most- emphatically that the poll willafrflME \rag#iip(shs,jf#irce of the water supply. It.ig simply, shall a sum of £8000 be raised to, if possible, obtain i a supply of waterfrom somewhere? dEvery rmvteK ot ha^p^Vl^y^eaged himself thatthejQigjie^tj^ngmeeringfcHftnt obtainable shall be consulted on both the doinaiu and theigravitatiqn .schemes, and furtlier, unless thus engineer reports favourably upon one bt 'fhese, no portion f b"fl ilieioan will' be raised;^ Foninstance, shouUl'theVepoffe'be domain supply, either on account o&jtsrJ<juality, quantity or the c6sfljflefef.'oi;woilang it, and frfvoM-able'ta eith^f bi4Afegr«ifitiition schemes, which latter might cost, say, .iSGOfIO, the board .bound by^its .promise (if for no other reason) would not undersecond would have to ' again ask tk& .ratetJ.-iyeti fdr^ab ft'dfliticftiilf Il>tirj/ <j'Bttt^ been asked : Why not have obtained this payers \ - Thd ' an^wei^i^jina^ it 1 .wo»ld' feW^le^aVc;Ul|4bl^^

§F,opoH for the loan. Manyidvtfl be absent *$r< from the town, - some too apathetic and , ' others incapable from sickness, &c. The members of the board have given the ratcrtayet'fl' d gtaraWWe wfiieh<biiifis thimt; ' let the ratepayers in their turn show that - they want a water supply by recording the only- pWerK *MT an affirmative vote at the poll. Should my explanation appear vague to, any cpn ? , iy cerned, I would thank you, Mr Editor, for r^permisqioa t to; .answer,, jthf^h , *myr, columns any p^j^f^ut mier^ on this most important 'subject. —l am,«'c, Thos. Wklls. Cambridge, Feb. 6th, 1883.