EFFECT OF LONG DROUGHT
WATER SHORTAGE IN BRITAIN MEASURE TO- ENiSUREi SUPPLIES (British Official Wireless.l Deceived 1.0 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, April 12. The Minister of Health, Sir Hilton Young, in moving the second reading of the Water Supplies Bill in the House of Commons this evening, said that during the year ended in March the rainfall had been 27 per cent, below the average. If a normal rainfall were n,t once resumed and continued steadily it Avon Id obviate the need for the Bill, which Avas designed to mitigate the effects of drougkLby making available for public use all water supplies, including those privately owned. The legislation, proposed Ava<s a temporary measure terminating at the end of a year, a.nd was concerned Avliolly with the present emergency, he said.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 April 1934, Page 7
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