LITTLE RIVER WATER SUPPLY
Sir,—A report in “The Press” to-day about the Little River water supply indicates that the Wairewa Council has decided once again that £.s.d. is of much more importance than the health of the community. What is it to the council that the water is unfit for consumption? Its members do not have to drink it, and, with luck, an epidemic of typhoid fever, such as Little River had some years ago, might pass them by. One has only to look at the township, still running the risk of another flood, owing to nothing having been done since the previous one, to see how much interest the council takes in it. The footpaths are nothing but a menace, owing to broken asphalt and thistles four feet high; and the residents prefer the risk of being run over' on the road to the risk of breaking their necks or ankles on the paths.— Yours, etc., LIVELY WATER.
September 12, 1946. [The Wairewa County Clerk had no comment to make on this letter.]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24985, 20 September 1946, Page 10
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