WATER SUPPLY WASTED
27.000 GALLONS RUSH AWAY DAM AT JOHNSONVILLE EMPTIED. APPARENTLY DELIBERATE DEED. By Telegraph.—-Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Under ordinary circumstances needlessly to cause a pronounced wastage of water is a misdemeanour against, society, but wilfully to cause a reservoir to empty itself in the middle of a drought must rank as a heinous offence. Such an act has -been perpetrated within the last few days at Johnsonville. The town board district has its oVn water supply—two dams in th© hills supplied by waters of the Ohariu stream. In order to get the water into the upper dam an electric pump was secured last year, since when no trouble has been experienced in filling the reservoir as the necessity arose. The dam holds 27,000 gallons of water and was filled one evening to the brim.
On complaints being lodged by residents that no water was available, an investigation was made, and it was found that a turncock had been procured and the valve opened, causing the whole of the 27,000 gallons to rush away down the hill to the stream whence it came. ■So far there has been no arrest in connection with the affair, but the matter is in tile hands of the police.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1928, Page 15
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