FEILDINO WATER SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 254, 20 July 1908, Page 9

FEILDINO WATER SUPPLY.

Wi*l;!; r^: Jr'V- '•-VA BAD BREAK 3-;(Br>TELEGH&H.-^SrXCIAL.COBRBSPONDENT t ) . } Palmerston North, July 19: .ifoifi-thp .last throo dKys the water supply '•■ qf -Foilding l has beon;-eut : ' off ■ through' a fall. ,pfr«arth in 'No. 3 tifiinol, which'' is' situated miles-from- .intake. Mr. S: Jickjpll, engineer, • of Piilmerston' 'North, ,waa called-in on 'Saturday to consult with. Mr. ■Etiaolie,borough engineer of Folding,' and on, their' risking 'tho" locality., a '''serious, state..; • of .affairs' Wa's'-revealed.'' ' ' • . i . '. r.,:Mr.. Jiokell ..states; that'it' is impossible at . - ; tlia':presorit' , 'time .to'locate'.in'.'the tunnel ; where ithe damago has taken placo; it is also . x enter the tunnel .owing, to tho quantity of Vater'-which- has escaped from tho -fractured 'pipe.' When asked . for an ; ; opiiiioii .as'to itho extent of . the damage .Mr. . J.ibkelksiidMt'- wais impossible 'f of 'liinv to stale tho ..amount, but- ho. would roughly ea l.timata.:it iiit? -about £1000,'. as;: the timbor-ingircasTfaidty-.throughout, -having,been built, 3rtithJTimu^timber,...which; 'dOos' uot :|ast. any . lengtfc'ofj tirno underground. It was avery". . . bad mistako 'oii tho part of tho authorities responsible ~to use such';timber.' ~;'.,; Wh(» the'rtimber';was»put : .in, about two and, a : half-'years ago,'. , several .laymen, ex-, pressed the/opinion that-it .would not last,; and this,-, unfortunately;-lva's .'proved only too ; ,;trub'J,- Itfwill bo, remembered that the water has , "a"'paitj history, ',^j^ch , ';pWplo iii-FeiHing aro only too sorrj . 'to.rfc^iicus's;." v ;.' 'V'Tfe'localY.'enginccr 'states .that only- om;tijmic,l^waS::'absolutely loie'c'essary" in, this in"stance.'l - iMr.•' J'ickcll '.will, visit"the'locality".