THE DRY SPELL.
HAWERA’S FORTUNATE POSITION
NO SHORTAGE OP WATER
The continual dry weather experienced in most parts of the Dominion is causing no little anxiety !.n many centres, but so far as Hawera and Taranaki generally is concerned there is no shortage of water at the present time, owing to a certain extent to the fact that our rivers are snow-fed and do not suffer to the same extent as the rivers further north, there being there no storage in the way of snow to keep up the supply during the period from February to-April. “Taranaki is especially favoured by small rivers, all of which are practicalIv fed from Mount Egmont, and the Tvapuni river (from which the Hawera municipal supplies are drawn) is capable of supplying a city nine times the size of Hawera right through the dry season.” said a person well acquainted with local conditions, in conversation with a “Hawera Star” reporter this morning. Should there be, however, an exceptionally dry summer in Taranaki, the prabaib lity of a shortage of water would bo about, the latter end of March and April, but by that time the autumn rains would be commencing to fall again.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 6
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199THE DRY SPELL. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 18 January 1928, Page 6
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