WATER SUPPLY.

New Zealand Times, Volume LV, Issue 2043, 28 October 1893, Page 3

WATER SUPPLY.

TO THE EDITOR. " nolico that the fact that a new , councillor is personally inconvonionced by '" the deficient supply to tho higher levels of '' the town has galvanised the council to an : extent which all the protests and deputations of aggrieved citizens were poWcTl»«s to effect. But to direct an enquiry into tho cause of tho scarcity in any one locality can only be with a view 1 to continue the present deprivation to ;. " higher level" ratepayers generally. The ftwt is that the main from "Wainui i 3 not large dncoffh' to carry int<s town 1 the' whole demand «t, busy times' of the day, when water engines' are at work; but if it were hot for the consumption by these tho inconvfenience would be very trifling. At my house, nearly 300 feet above harbour lovel, I have water, except during working hours; the cessation of my snpply at 8 o'clock, the return at noon and at 5 are almost punctual enough to set a clock by. Under the 330th section of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1880, tho Corporation is only permitted to sell Water for motive power after all household requirements are satisfied. Might I lay down a few points for the consideration of the Mayor and ' Councillors :—Firstly, are they not daily guilty t/f breaking this clause, and can they not bo sued for damages ? Secondly, in soiling to citizens water which by" their own act in converting to o6her purposes they fnil to deliver, but for which salo they enforce payment, are thoy not guilty of obtaining money under false pretences; thirdly, in forbidding tho use of earth closets, yet failing to deliver water "for flushing water-closets, are they not imperilling tho health of the citizens ? And I the authorities) who' are guilty of this money-grabbing at the' cest of our health are the same who are clapb'iftg on us the • burden of a drainage rate for the' sake of that health. If the'money received by Stile of motive-power is of consequence to tho council, by all means let it bo continued ; but let the council out of that money arrange means whereby a permanent supply of water may be to tho hands of those citizbiia.who now, by reason of that sale, are unable to obtain it.—l am, &c, Aquaeius.