CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8] — Page 581

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Department on the subject of the Admiralty letter of "the 29th of April, copy of - which accompanied Your Lordship's despatch No 108 of the 291 ? of May.

2.

I may

mention.

that in a report dated the 28th of March last, M. Cooper stated that having had — meters fixed in the street for ascertaining the quantity of water used at the Naval Yard and Deamen's Club,

he

Adver

>

he

found that the consumption

was at the rate of 1,000,000

gallons a quarter in the

case

of the former, and 750,000 gallons a quarter

in the ease.

3.

of the latter.

I should add that

it is of the utmost

importance that the greatest economy

should be exercised in regard to the Water supply, owing the danger of long protracted droughts in this Colony

Colony such

to

as

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