GOVERNMENT. PRECAUTIONS.
EFFECT ON-. THiE -31I5INES: ADELAIDE'S TRADE A.FFECTED. Received Ju-ne 24, Ift.2' a.m. Sydney , v J;une 24. A special meeting of the Cabinet will be held ' to-day to discuss the Broken ''Hill -water famine. Meantime^ -the Government has asked the Bor--' <*ugh Council to form a-Wjater Supply. Cpmanittee. to assist the Governmentofficials .in. ,maintaihing the domestic- ' sirtpply. GoVernment trains are kept < running to obtain a supply from Sil-' .yerton dam.^ ,/',.>"..., . .■ • **,Tfce'. engineer 'at St^pEens Creefe explains tha% the "stoppage wascausal by '\H^ town : •"' Veijvice running' *" dry f" he fiibip^s : .wheti *- ■the' au3sdliary ";pjuim'p3 are statrftfH' tlkat'lie wiirbe afele to siopply all the mines though", he' is d^nbtfuli";-' r-r ' "'"',, A tram witE iUiirty thousanid- gallons is ep^pecrteld fr,oin' South Austtralia fbSjt'^ii&rning. The (Go( GoK r ern&ent ."iajve given insftrjuctions r^ not to' stopply 1 any of" iiiis, water abov.e t d^wiiestic Tequiremfehts to" -t^e 'mines for,' a day or two x *_ iilt~ the aic^al position ia 3efi]ned.,^ Several 'mines* foirVihe' tjine" f being ' Tceep/'on a .'"xftimKet ; ©f irien ~&i, Gbyern- * ifient pros^dtS^^wor^* tnus-" reducing the nuanifoer of *men idle to some • extent: ■•.!" -t" T / - .vi .''.. ' ': ' The Centrarjnine 1 aqd. J£e Dry Mag:-" netic Miners plant is unaffected. ; The stoppage Will have a seriojus effect? 'pp. the trade rqf^A^lelaade*jtta.'r«:; gards/both-; t|ie demand '%&)!&^'sA*pplies and the_shij>ping of ■ore.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12290, 24 June 1903, Page 7
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