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The well owned by the South British Insurance Company to the left 
ge on the Taradale Road 
This suggests the existence of a second water-bearing bed. At the Park 
racecourse there is a well 135 ft. deep; in Avenue Road the Roman 
well is 100ft. In the direction of Jervoiston and Meeanee the wells 
deepen somewhat. Mr. T. B. Harding, of Jervoiston, reports having à 
well 92 ft. deep, put down in 1901; but Messrs. Harris, Lynch, and 
ürst well put down in Hawke's Bay was carried out by Messrs. Bennett 
and Lord, who arrived in Hawke's Bay from Christchurch in the year 
1866; the depth was 170ft. Тһе late Mr. George Rymer sent me a 
letter he had received from Mr. Lord, written from Normanby on the 
4th October, 1916, the gist of which is that he and Bennett put down à 
well in Peacock's paddock in November, 1866, which was a failure. Then 
struck at a depth of 145 ft. They then went to the Mission Station and 
got water at 175Ң. This also was in January, 1867. The well put 
down in Napier was on the site of Swan's Brewery, the depth being 212 ft., 
and the flow very good. I give these three wells prominence because of 
their historical value. 
The deepest well in Hastings is Newbiggin's. Put down in 1895, three 
separate flows were found—namely, at 115 ft.; at 198 ft., whence the 
per minute. In 1904 the Hastings Borough Council put down a bore to 
a depth of 607 ft., but without success. Quicksand was encountered at 
560 ft. In the Clive Grange and Mangateretere districts the wells vary 
widely in depth, there being two or more beds yielding good flows of 
water. 
to, at Riverside, between Farndon and Mangateretere, was put down by 
Mr. Leipst in 1891. It gives more than half a million gallons a day. 
