“ Water supply is quite a big question in Australia,” said Mr A. S. Wallace yesterday. “ They have to bring their water mains sixty and seventy miles to serve the cities.” He told of small villages—no bigger than Pirongia—which gave large financial guarantees in order to get a water supply, and then the water was sold at a cost 1 evond the stranger's imagination. “ This is in marked contrast with New Zealand, where our streams are easily tapped every few miles,” he added. The Municipal Band. Football Day, July 10. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, 1/9, For Bronchial Cough, take
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Waipa Post, Volume XVII, Issue 962, 1 July 1920, Page 5
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