CORRESPONDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 179, 30 July 1924, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WATER WE DRINK. (To the Editor) Sir, —Might I be permitted to draw public attention to what appears to mc to be a matter for grave concern. Last Sunday morning, with the aid of a small tap-fitting filter which luy wife had purchased from a returned soldier salesman (more with the idea of giving him a lift along than anything else) 1, after about ten minutes or so of continuous pouring of our kitchen tap, was lioth surprised and shocked to find no less than five small snail-like creatures, and two small white worms, together with an amount of vegetation and muddy matter. All this was visible to the naked eye. Having requisitioned I lie glass from my bike lamp, I was disgusted to see revealed in the niter, an almost seething mass. Now, sir, this is near spring time, and, incidentally, epidemic time, and I submit that it should be the first duty of our city fathers to rectify such conditions, lit the meantime, I would strongly advise folks to take individual precautions, pending the moving of those responsible. Should anyone doubt the truth of the foregoing, you are quite at liberty to divulge my name and address, when I will be quite willing to demonstrate that such is a sad fact.—T am. etc., AQUA PURA.