MARTON WATER SHORTAGE
URGENT APPEAL FOR ECONOMIES
MAYOR SAYS POSITION HAS WORSENED
(New Zealand Press Association) WANGANUI, April 20. “The water supply position in Marton is more serious now than at any other time of the crisis,” said the Mayor of Marton (Mr W. Meads) tonight. At the present rate of consumption, he said, the Army was unable to keep the town supplied. He made an urgent appeal to the residents to reduce consumption by at least a third. In carting 150,000 gallons a day, the Army was doing a wonderful job, said Mr Meads. However, this had now to be cut to 100,000 gallons a day. “The present rate of consumption has got to stop,” said Mr Meads. The amount of water residents were using was “absolutely ridiculous.” The average consumption was 30 gallons a person each day. “Since the Army has taken over the cartage of water, and the district was swept by two showers of rain, residents got the impression that everything in the garden was lovely,” Mr Meads said. “This is not so.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27639, 21 April 1955, Page 11
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