Cook Is. Water Service.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Rarotonga, May 22.
A CONSIDERABLE quantity of 6 inch water pipes have been ar riving at Rarotonga by the mail boats from New Zealand.
It is learned that these pipes are to used for replacing the present 3 inch pipes between the reservoir at the head of the Avatiu Valley and the Settlement at Avatiu.
The 3 inch pipes will be then used to take the place of the 1 inch ser vice between Avatiu and the Wireless Station (a distance of three miles).
This progressive undertaking is no doubt intended to improve the health conditions for the native settlers and others who reside along that stretch of the island. At present, the health conditions in the Cock Group are good —there has been no recurrence of the mysterious typhoid outbreak which faced Doctor Ellison on his arrival on the island last year.