22.
at the dry period of proposed assistance
the
year, with all the
from the Nullahs~
intervening between that station and
23.
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particular the public want is supplied to the extent of those works.
the
49.
To secure the waste waters, in the
City of Victoria, umed it is to be feared
leave little available
47.
Could
be
for
anch purposes
The only supply therefore, that depended upon, would seem to be the present escape matus that flow into the sea, and which might be as utilized by being collected into spaccial reservoirs connected with the system of sewers.
For the extinction of fires, referred.
48.
to in the advertisement of 9
14 March 1863, completion of the Pok foolum
the near
Water works, since this Committee began.
their sittings, has shown their adaptation
to the above special fourforse,
and that
in this
opinion of the Committee,
a Connected series.
of large reservoirs would be required, but how
for they emed be adopted could only ascertained by careful Survey, with
be
reference to this special object. The importance of the subject induces the Committee strongly to recommend its ~ consideration to Govenment; the more
urgently.
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and
they do so
reason of
an
increasing population, it is not improbable that the present supply of water, (however well husbanded; ) may prove barely adequate to the wants of the City in periods of
protracted dry weather.