A Water Famine.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12291, 25 June 1903, Page 5

A Water Famine.

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED.

United Vtem Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—C opyright. Sydney,' June 24. There is no news from Broken Hill to-hand to-day. Tho Government are arranging to carry out extensive dam aud road works in the district. This will absorb a large number of the unemployed miners. : Water is supplied, to the towhs!peo- : pie at half cost by the Go'vemmant ; of South Australia. 40,000 PEOPLE AFFECTED. 1 'ARRIVAL "OF A WiTER TRAIN. RAIN MAKING EXPERIMENTS A FAILURE. . . N Received June 25, 10.11 a.m. Sydney, , June 25. Altogether over 5600 men arc idle at Broken H£ll. The Government has taken measures; to ,reliqve any. .cases of >disftress. , . -Including- the smelting- works' anH the shipping interests in South Australia, 1 40,000 people aro v dia'ectly af--fecte'd in tho two, States. : Tho ' first water, fo'ain 'from 1 South AfuS-tralia- arrived yesterday! The Council took charge, selling to residents- at five schillings 1 per 100 gallons. The municipal .baths -were usw as a srtorage reservoir.- '-, The engineer of the water supply states tiat there are still fo,ur million gallons in the" town" reservoir. He 'expected ' to; have the auxiliary pumps ready last night to resume the siufuply to the towai to-clay, but wotuld promise nothing definite. . .Further rain making experiments wi!Jjfbe^rna<io> «.ii; sicale to-mjorrow,'"* So .far they have been quite a failure. ' The Proprietary Company has a Sorfcnignt's sm'pialy of ore at its port , '•Piric "smelting works. 31 it is com— poilecl to close, twelve huridiecl men will be- thro^vn idle, besides a hun— idrwl engaged in tho shipment of "ore jand in the limesbone quarries. , 1