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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1626, 29 April 1903, Page 13

Some time ago the pupils of Morison’s Bush (Otago) school made up a. case of 1 ooks for presentation to Boer children in South Africa. The Government forwarded the box to the Cape, and the Premier has now received a communication from the Colonial Secretary at the Cape acknowledging the gift, which had just arrived, and stating that he had forwarded it to 1 the Imperial SwfLtary in the Transvaal. Dr Stone-Wigg, Bishop of New Guinea, has returned to Adelaide from England, where he raised £12,000 in support of his mission. Dr Ogston, District Health Officer for Otago, has recently been moving in the matter of Dunedin’s water supply. It is recorded in the “ Otago Daily Times ” that he forwarded a sample of water taken from a housetap in the northern end of the city to Dr Black for analysis. The latter, in his report, concludes:—“l consider this water utterly unfit for use for household purposes. It must be very exceptional. I have never found any house -water supply of so abominable a quality.” Dr Ogston has, as a result of this report, communicated with the Dunedin City Couiicil, strongly urging the necessity of instituting a. proper system of filtration. The Government statistician. Mr' Coghlan. states that the population of the Commonwealth during the pa.st. two years has only increased by about 2 per cent. In such a young community be consider® the population should be much higher.