Mr Mestayer’s Defence.

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Mr Mestayer’s Defence.

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(5) Mr Lysnar then proceeds as follows ; “ Anyone visiting the site is met at once by the fact that there is less water coming over the falls than there is in the creek further down. This seems to show that there is at present a large quantity of water finding its way through the rocks under the surface.” This does not follow by any means. The creek is .ed by a large area of land below the falls, in addition to that supplying it from above them, and consequently it might naturally be expected 1 hat as one descends to the creek, tlie quantity (lowing in it would be found to increase. At the same time, I assert positively that it is impossible to estimate by eye whether there is more or less flowing in the creek than over the falls—this could only he determined by a most careful series of accurate gaugings. I have had to gauge the flow of all kinds of streams, from from tiny rivulets up to the rivers Thames and Irwell, and know from experience how impossible it is to arrive at anything like an approximation to the truth without exact measurements. ~ , Mr Mestayer then continues up to twenty-firstly to controvert Mr Lysnar’s arguments. He concludes . Although only about half the borough will be served, so far as the area is concerned, this is hardly a fair view to take because this half includes nearly the whole of the population. Besides which, the schemes being framed to admit of future extension, the rest of the borough will be improved in value, because pi the facilities so afforded.