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town way be able to draw an abundaut daily supply of pure water, more sm~
expecially during
the
other minor sources the present allowance
of
water amounts to about H.
season
day of the year — ( October to April) _ when
the natural sources are for the west com
part dried up.
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The water in the old reservoir at
· Pokfoolum accounting to "/44 million __ gallons had already been foured insufficient in 1871 when Victoria contained only. 95,000 schabitants. At the present time when the population has increased to
110,000 the inadequary of the old w
reservoirie
of
course the
fett, and
the straits to which the poorespecially,
are put for
the want of this common.
are known to be.
- very great
massary of Perfoolium and
4.
From
other
4 gallons a day per head of inhabitnut. On the on
completion of the new Tytane Materworks. this daily allowance will be increased to about 19 gallons a day during
dry season, while during
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of five the proposed
the
the rainy
I months, and so
:solong
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voir is overflowing,
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there is no reason why the supply to the town should not be practically
unlimited:
5.
Such confused notions have At one time and another prevailed in respect of possible improvements to the existing water-supply, that it may not be out of place here to point out,
briefly,
that no doubt had ever at
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