"WHO WANTS TO DRINK WATER ?"
"Would it be possible for this council to erect a few drinking fountains round the town?" inquired Councillor L. McKenzie at the meeting of the Wellington City Council last night. "The only place that I know of that a person can get a drink of water is on the wharves."
Councillor M. F. Luckie: Who wants a drink of water? (Laughter.)
There was a fountain at the Basin Reserve, said Councillor McKenzie, but it had been out of order for a very long time. The fountain at Central Park was in a state of disrepair, and there was another at Oriental Bay which was not much good. He did not think there was any place in !the city proper where a stranger could go and get a drink of water.
The Mayor (Mr. T. C. A. Hislop) said that when more money was provided in the estimates it would be possible to erect all these things. He suggested that if there was any person very much in need of water he could go into any hotel or chemist's shop and he would get it.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 5
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