PRECIOUS WATER
SHORTAGE ON GOLDFI ELD • [FROM OUR OWN COURESPONnKNT] SYDNEY, Sept. 27 Tho spectacle of townspeople of Tennnnt's Creek goldfield, Central Australia, arriving toward dusk at a well seven miles out with water vessels, blankets and rugs so that they might be among tho first to draw on the overnight soakagc, has become a daily phase of goldfields lifo. Water is so scarce that it is becoming a popular form of currency. Each day with tho drawing of several thousands of gallons tho well runs dry, but replenishes overnight, to supply the parly arrivals with their requirements. The well is tho only source of good drinking water within a radius of 50 miles, all tho water holes having dried up months ago. In six months, Tennant's Creek has had only one fall of rain, when 40 points were registered. Feverish attempts by tho Department of tho Interior to locate water by boring have produced an abundant supply of brackish water, but it is heavily charged with salts and it is not even suitable for washing purposes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22231, 4 October 1935, Page 5
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