DUNEDIN SHORT OF WATER

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25446, 18 March 1948, Page 4

DUNEDIN SHORT OF WATER

Taps Sometimes Run - Dry

GIRLS’ HOSTEL DRAWS ON THE LEITH (P.A.) DUNEDIN, March 17. With the city still well filled with centennial visitors, Dunedin is faced with its most serious water shortage for years. Unless supplies are improved soon the shortage will become critical.

Pressure is reduced to a minimum practically throughout the day and manufacturers, business firms, bakers, butchers, and others are finding difficulty in carrying on. Milk treatment stations, which require large quantities of water for cleaning and cooling, are particularly affected; The supply of milk to schools has had to be stopped. Hospitals, too, are troubled. To provide enough water for each day, hosEitals afe storing enough in the early □urs when taps are running to see them through the next 24 hours. Some dentists finding their taps dry have had to stop, work at times. Hotels and restaurants are finding it hard to get dishes washed. One girls’ hostel has had bucket brigades carrying supplies from the waters of the Leith, a stream which itself is shrinking because of the drought