SCARCITY OF WATER IN IHE SOUTH.
[BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Invercakgill, Tuesday. Water, owing to the long drought, is getting scarce, aod several mills have been stopped for want of it for the boilers. The lessee of the stone quarriea at Greenhills, five miles from the Bluff, was in the same position, and applied for freight from the Bluff waterworks for water. The quotation for five miles was nineteen shillings per four tons, the freight of quarried stone over the same distance being 7s 6d for fivo tons.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7552, 3 February 1886, Page 5
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