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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.

རིན་།

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.