EMERGENCY MEASURE
WATER SUPPLIES BILL DROUGHT IN ENGLAND (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 12th April. The Minister of Health, Sir E. Hilton Young, moving the second reading of the Water Supplies Bill in the House of Commons this evening, said that during the year ended March the rainfall had been 07 per cent, below the average. If the normal rainfall were at once resumed, and continued steadily, it woulcj not obviate the need for the Bill, which was designed to mitigate the effects of the drought by making available for public use all water supplies, including those privately owned. The legislation proposed was a temporary measure, treminating at the end of the year, and was concerned wholly with the present emergency.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 April 1934, Page 5
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