ON THE WATER WAGGON.

Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 13, 4 September 1943, Page 4

ON THE WATER WAGGON.

$ the other evening we overheard come - one ack 1 will this water give me worms 11 no , it has boon clorinated J came the prompt reply from- doug comurie who happened to bo at the water tank at the time, we have hoard many uncomplimentary remarked passed on the water, wo have done our share of swearing when we ftoixnd the tea undrinkable, whitch has not been often, but the question reminded us of a warning wo had forgotten, none of us have seen the hook worms. * * * wo thought wo would look doug up and find out just law the water was purified. we nabbed him after lunch one day, and on th© way down to the river where tho puts was r.t work he told us that he had almost completed hie apprenticeship an a plumber with glengarrys, a fairly well — known wn.nganui firm of plumbers. * * * * in reply to tho question whether tho storien of plumbers were true, doug said hothought some wore, on one occasion when ho was called In to fix a bath, he was astonished

to find a. woman completely naked in tho ho vac so surprised ho juct gaped. 11 she stared too.' 1 said doug, n but i had tho advantage. 1 ' . 1 what did you do ?• H i just said,'excuse me sir’, and walked out. \ * * * by that time wo had reached the water waggon, water- was being pumped , inot through some bind of machine, which doug explained' was the ©lodinating machine, one'gallon of olorinated water was added to every four hundred gallons of water, alum - ma then added for the purpose of helping tho process of filtering, the water-might bo a muddy colour, ns it sometime is after a heavy rain, but after having passed through the filter it would come out dear. * * * ” why is it that the water is sometimes co strongly olorinatod that it is undrinkable tj this question made doug grab a test slide. 11 hero is the way we test the water.fl he then demonstrated how .

the tost was.mad©, and showded us whet worn th© signs of over olorination® n it mby 'happen that we ar© working at night, when it is difficult to 000 the toot slide, or it may ho that wo have a machine we are not accustom© to, but generally speaking tho el©nine to novar noticed.fl . at that moment tom o’donnoll camo down and wanted to know what was wrong with tho nato.Y ... its elorinatod to hell 11 was tom’s encouraging remark. another demonstration followed, but tom was not convinced. * * * tho camp, wo learnt, requires at least five hundred gallons of water per day, a hundred of which is used for washing up moss utenools, oto e two trips each day uro made to field bakery where an almost equal amount of waterhas to. be treated« * * * this moans that the staff have-a . fuilly full day. 0.0.0 f tho party is 1/cpl g u crisp, who has doug and e.rthur ward with him. their day commences at seven and ends at which is long enough,or so arthur thinks* it is not until one thinks of how awkward life in eamp would be if wo had to have all tho water boiled before drinking, ' that we ,calico how necessary our water men are.)» .••••••••