SILVERSTREAM WATER RACE

Evening Star, Issue 20130, 21 March 1929, Page 15

SILVERSTREAM WATER RACE

VISITORS’ BEHAVIOUR WATER COMMITTEE'S WARNING In moving tlic adoption of the report of tho Water Committee at the meeting 'of the City Council last night Cr W. 13egg referred to tho recommendation of the committee, which was as follows With the increasing motor traffic tho number of visitors to the Silvcrstream Valley is increasing rapidly, and the time has now arrived when further steps must be taken to protect the water supply from the thoughtless acts of a certain type of visitor- At present there is one man on special patrol duty, and it is proposed that two additional employees shall be detailed for this duty, which will he carried out every Sunday and on holidays. The three residerk labourers at Whare Flat will also iak. turn about with the duly. The nmu will be provided with suitable badges in case thejr authority is disputed. Tho cost of the patrol work as outlined is estimated at £IOO per annum.” That clause, said Cr Begg, was to be taken as a final warning. From the number of complaints and reports which had reached the department from time to time in the past, it appeared that a number of visitors to the Silverstream did not know how to conduct themselves there. It was of such a serious nature that unless visitors—and ho referred more especially to Dunedin citizens who were interested in the water supply—took greater care and exercised keener supervision over the water race, the only tiling to do .would be to shut out the general public from the Silverstream. Tie trusted the warning would have its due effect, and that visitors to the Silvcrstream and to the whole of the catchment urea would take heed. -