DUNEDIN WATER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3215, 11 May 1911, Page 7

DUNEDIN WATER.

SOME ASTONISHING STATEMENTS

Astonishing evidence as to what water is fit and what unfit for human consumption, states the Dunedin correspondent of the ‘‘Lyttelton Times,” was offered in the Magistrate’s Goirt during' the hearing of a charge of tapping the Roslyn borough’s main, preferred against a man employed, an Messrs Ross and Glendining’s mill in the Kaikorai Veliev. Mr. Robert Glendining asserted that the drinking water was supplied from the dam above the mill, and was fit for drinking purposes, although men and boys had bathed in the dam. It was good enough for him, he said, and therefore good enough for his employees. At the other pole of opinion was a laborer living near the dam, who declared that lie had refrained from bathing in the dam because he did not think the water clear enough for that purpose. The analyst’s report on a sample purporting to; have been taken from this dam was that it contained vegetable matter and free ammonia, and was not fit for consumption, but the most staggering proposition was contained in the question put to the analyst by Mr. W. D. Stewart, who asked whether be was aware •that every analyst had condemned, the city water for drinking purposes, and that the analysis had not been made known for fear of alarming the people.