TIMARU WATER SUPPLY.

Timaru Herald, Volume V, Issue 110, 16 June 1866, Page 6

TIMARU WATER SUPPLY.

[From the Timaru Herald, June B.] The Municipal Council deserve considerable praise for energetically taking up the question of a supply ot water for Timaru; and from what we can learn their labours are likely to be crowned with success more complete than the most sanguine of that body ever conceived. The Council a short time since employed Mr. Frazer a practical digger, a man who has had long and varied experience m water-races m Otago to make a rough survey of the country at the back ofTimaru, to the Pareora river, to ascertain the practicability of bringing water into Timaru by a race from that river. The report has been made public, and is of the most favourable character. The whole work can be executed for [something less than two thousand pounds, and a supply of the purest water delivered throughout the town at the rate of three thousand gallons per minute — an ample supply for a very large population. The water will be brought a distance of sixteen or eighteen miles ; but the whole work can, we understand be executed without any " fluming," except a few yards across the head waters of the Otipua Creek. Mr. Frazer has undertaken to send m a tender for the work, when the Council are prepared to undertake it, with the condition that if he m any way fails m delivering the water where required, that he will forfeit all payments on account of the work ; or as he expreses his meaning " no water, no pay." The Municipal Council have now made application to the Government to grant the money required for this most necessary work ; and we would urge upon the Government the advisability, the necessity, and the justice, of complying' with the request. It is a work which is necessary for the health and comfort of a large population, and which may be done at a very trifling expense.