Water Shortage
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Drastic Action in Suva
SUVA residents were warned again re cently that, under the Defence (Water Supply) Regulations, the use of water from the piped supply for water ing of gardens by hose, watering-can, stirrup pump or anything else, is pro hibited.
The present-day population of Suva is much greater than that for which the supply was originally intended, and it has been calculated that every man, woman and child in the town uses 80 gallons of water per day. Cooking, bath ing and laundry take up a certain amount, but certainly nothing approach ing 80 gallons a head—wastage must ac count fqr the greater part of it. At the stand-pipes, for instance, which are scat tered about the town, and where natives and others make a practice of washing under the running tap, the wastage must be out of all proportion to the amount of water actually required for the job.
Mr. Gerald G. Smith, who was well known in Port Moresby before the eva cuation, when he conducted a trading business under the name of Gerald Smith & Co., and who was treasurer of the Pacific Territories Association for a time, after the evacuation, has taken over the Club Hotel in Yass, NSW. He writes that he likes the district very much.