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directly or by means of extensive catchwaters to enable both
reservoirs to be filled in a season of average rainfall.
3.
That the valley and its adjuncts must
with the growth of the Colony be used to the fullest possible
extent goes without saying. No extra expense, beyond the com-
paratively trifling item incurred on the suction main referred
to in the 18th. paragraph of Mr. Chatham's report, will there-
fore be ultimately incurred.
4.
In the meantime the reason for utilising
first No. 4 site is that owing to the difficulties experienced
at the low level site it is evident that no water can be
gathered there for pumping purposes until the lapse of probably
three years from the present date, whereas if the dan at No. 4
site be at once proceeded with pumping by means of the Engines
ordered from home can be commenced, it is anticipated, during
the dry season 1904
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1905.
5.
It is necessary here to explain that the
pumping plant referred to in paragraph 6 of Mr. Chatham's
report is a purely temporary arrangement devised by Mr. Chatham
to pump the dry weather flow of the streams into the Tytan
conduit. The plant was purchased locally.
6.
The necessity for increasing the water
supply is very urgent and while the large low level reservoir
is designed to meet future requirements, it is urgently neces- sary that since immediate advantage cannot be taken of such a reservoir, measures be adopted to provide for present necessi- ties. I have therefore strongly to recommend that lar. Chatham's
proposals he approved and paid for out of the sums voted for the Tytan Tuk Schemeof which practically it forms a part
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