WAIMAKARIRI-ASHLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8596, 25 September 1893, Page 3

WAIMAKARIRI-ASHLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT.

TO THE EDITOR OK THE PRESS. Sir, —Why does the Chairman of the Board seek by argument and explanation to show a thing to be good when it is bad. The Rock Ford is a pill that tho district will not) take until they are forced : they have found out it is nasty. I object to Mr Dobson'a one-sided explanations. My letter of May 17th, 1892, was only an attempt to draw attention to the cheapest and cost water supply in tho district. Brown's Rocks possesses au advantage for permanency equal to Rock Ford, and for evenness greatly boforo either Gorge Bridge or Rode Ford. In that letter the measure ot capacity was a twenty foot tunnel at the intake, which was equal to supply the whole want of the district, but the Board for its own purpose preferred to calculate a distributary channel. Experience now shows mc that a largo work equal to tho requirements of the district could have been executed there well within the amount named by mo. I equally object to Mr Dobson's state* ment of facts, as well as to his obstructing the district from getting its cheapest and best supply of water, and so by nut allowing mo to participate in the same, equally as much as to the committing of the district to tho enormous useless expenditure, which can only reeult in a limited amount of good, and an tinlimited amount of bad ; also, that the blue book spoken of is a special pleader for tho Board's scheme, and the information suppressed shows it> did not want the beet service. Mr Dobson mentions that next April the good land will be able to return members to the Board that will adjust charges as they like, but the Act protects the poor land, and tho law will will nob brook au injustice, neither is it wise to attempt it. If the Board rely on tho election next April why not take a re-vote now before they have contrived to get the district committed to Rock Ford; the Board is absolutely stopping the district from getting its good and cheap supply.—Yours, &c, Marmadctke Dixojt.