Borough Water Supply

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 15

Borough Water Supply

Sir,—"Elector" describes Mr. Coleman's Waipaoa proposal as an earnest endeavour to get something done; "Elector" says that he does not put himself against science and condemn the Waipaoa scheme but that so long as we are dependent on Te Arai, just so long must we be prepared to strike similar trouble to that at present being experienced. If the Waiapoa scheme were now in operation it would not assist us for the river is at the moment carrying so much silt that the water could not be made economically fit by any process. The implication that those who are opposed to the scheme necessarily doubt that polluted water can be made harmless by some scientific process is not correct. When I find a boiled slug in my cabbage or a wellcooked fly in my stew reason tells me that the cooking process has rendered the small addition quite .innocuous and that a slight extra nutritive value in proteins and the like has been given to my meal, but the unscientific part of my nature refuses to be comforted. Mr. Noel Bull is making an earnest endeavour to prevent the Waipaoa scheme being foisted on to the public and I wish him success.—Yours etc. CITIZEN.