NO WATER!

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 6

NO WATER!

EMPTY TANKS IN THE SUBURBS. sDdl°y°fin a long fi, time has,such a P ]ea sant of tlin vl n1 r a Pl )caretl ■* this time 0 tho year. It does not require a verv old inhabitant to vouch for the fact that from.earyin October ~ntil after Christ" as the .inhabitants of this district must not expect too much in the way of fine weather. Gales and rain, with an occasional two or ee days; interval of calm are th'e usual thing This prolonged period of sunshine is almost unprecedented, .and !the appy! g0 lucky dwellers in the suburbs.did not, throe weeks ago .anticipate it. Paterfamilias in Ivilbirmo the other morning- took a hammer about the centre ring. A sepulchral clanechoed about the interior of tho tank. Ho result n lUl£S A lower do,vn -»« result Down, down, down,'- to the second ring from the bottom, when mt o wf l Od .°^ raCfe r, of t] ?? so,md * old '"in that he had tho awful void. Paterfamilias went without his bath that morning, Jnd smee But a tiny pool of water lying disconsolately at the bottom of a 40ojallon tank won't last for. ever, ancKthe suburbanite, his, water supply havine petered out, trudges rogularly-but not willinglv-to the nearest creek or pump, and fills sundry do° mestic pickets ; Al over tho outlying portions of the. city, where the water-mams do not roach the cry is for.water. Those householders who are situated on the routes of the latest ' and who have so far neglected to avail themselves of the advantages, of a regular water-supply, are how' repenting. . Lnlesi the. present'weather break' n«H fill f C i? m ? d r' np l ° L ur rofresl ies the eartlJ and fills the, tanks, the condition of thine" in the suburbs will soon be somewhat serious Last autumn a similar though'much more' sonous drought afflicted the district, a^d'l tho suburban residents are by no means anxious for a repetition. Yesterday morning certainly looked as if something were rr O i n | to happen, for. big, heavy rain-clouds T.unf over the city,, an? from the appearance o^ 1 find 7, '1° T ld hav . e becn s »rprised to find a hard southerly, with-rain, blowing in the afternopn. A southerly breeze dd oome, but the clouds dissolved, and the wind died -down at- night. Meanwhile P^ Ind'tpe" ' th ° ° UtskirtS " h °P? S a » d &