NO WASHING TO-DAY

Evening Star, Issue 19273, 11 June 1926, Page 2

NO WASHING TO-DAY

WIVES' WEEKLY WAIL LITTLE WATER AT ANDERSON’S BAY. Monday h not washing day for the housewives on the hill at Anderson’s Bay. /They are as helpless as a pastrycook without flour on the morning selected by most wives as tho period of toil in the laundry. It is exasperating for the good women. The week’s , washing is piled up in the baskets; the copper fire has been carefully set by tho husband before his departure for the city: yet washing cannot be done without water. The housewife is helpless, because she has no water.

A gurgle and a trickle come from the taps when they are turned on. But little water. It happens every Monday morning, according to the speakers at last night’s meeting of the Bay Ratepayers’ Association, when the low pressure for the hill supply was discussed. “ Tho supply ofr water to the houses higher up the hill is still a burning question; tho pressure is wretched,” stated the president (Mr J. C. H. Somerville), when moving the adoption of tho annual report. The real solution was tho building of tho reservoir or storage tanks on Green Hill or some other high point. Mr S._ B. Macdonald supported tbe chairman’s remarks, that the only remedy was a system of gravitation, and spoke against tho installation or another main up tho hill. “The hill water supply is worse than had drains,” Sir Somerville declared later in the meeting. “ It is not healthy. Not only are wo nut to groat inconvenience, but on the hill the pny sent pressure is so poor that the sanitary services are affected.”

Mr Macdonald said that though tbe service was an improvement on that existing a few .years ago it was still bad.

Two men, ratepayers on the hill, gave their experiences, and urged tho necessity for an early remedy, Mrs K. Downing, speaking on behalf of the women on the hill, stated that no water was available on Monday mornings. “ That this meeting of Anderson’s Bay ratepayers protests against tho meagre water supply to the high levels, and urgently requests that immediate action be taken to erect a reservoir at Green Hill or some other suitable site,” was moved by Mr Macdonald. The motion was seconded by Mr A. W. Cooper and carried.