NEW SUPPLY.

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 134, 25 March 1924, Page 6

NEW SUPPLY.

MAKING SURE OK WATER. THE SEMPLE PARTY'S RECORD. fPer Aiwociitinn.l Wellington, .March 21. At Omngoorongo to-day Mayor Wright, ALP,, performed the- cere, muiiy of turning on the water from Orogtioorongo stream into the Wainni stream, tlius nrviding an assured ample supply for the city and suburbs for many years to conic. Many congratulatory speeches were made. RIG RETURN TO CO-OPERATORS Air Robert Semple, who was the bead of tlie party who carried out the. work under the co-operative principle (the. price being 2G Ms; per gout), said the Australian and New Zealand records had been broken in the matter of speed and possibly tic world’s u-ecord. He stated.that tin eo-t was 2I of),(XX), and payments to the party amounted to .270,000.