GISBORNE WATER SUPPLY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17943, 22 November 1932, Page 2

GISBORNE WATER SUPPLY.

(To the Editor of the Herald.)

Sir, —I would lilio to ask, what benefit do wo derive from having a water supply for the town if we are prohibited from making use of it in the driest part of the season, when the gardens and lawns are all withering for the want of moisture. I read in the papers some time ago that the authorities were going to make a law, or command, that every worker who had sufficient land was to grow vegetables, so that they might have a regular supply. Well now, we all of us know only too well that the Gisborne flat is nothing more than a sandy, plain, having little or no moisture to sustain vegetation during the hot dry months of summer. One can see from day to day how the vegetables in the gardens are drying or withering up, so in the face of those circumstances how is it possible that vegetables can be grown to success, seeing that there is not enough water to give tho gardens that plentiful supply which is most necessary. I presume that it must be in the memory of the “old hands” the dry seasons during the hard westerlies, that Gisborne used to get, also the great amount of sickness, prior to the inauguration of tho present supply from To Arai, for which I may say we wero very grateful. One cannot forget either the many public meetings concerning how and where was the water to come from, and I can remember Mr. Lysnnr telling us, “To stick to our tanks, as they will be needed later on.” And how true wero his words is well known. X also remember when the late Mr. Prank Harris said that “this supply is all very good for the present but. when Gisborne becomes about five times the size that it is now, then you will find that the supply will be inadequate, and finally you will be compelled to go to Waikaremoana, simply because there is no other place from where a good and permanent supply can be obtained. How, as far as our present supply goes, it is but a “toy.” It may be sufficient for fire-fighting purposes, but it is of no use for general domestic purposes. There may be all softs of temporary expedients

thought of, but they will Cost a much greater sum than if we went in for a good and permanent scheme and were done with it, once and for all. —• Yours, etc., J. PIERCE.

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