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mandatory, and the Havelock authorities would be doing a public service 
by requiring the Health Officer for the district to test the character of 
the waters flowing from the wells in the district. This question of the 
quality of water for household purposes receives little or no attention 
from the proper authorities, and it is only in times of public danger that 
the matter of the purity of the water-supply is considered worthy of 
attention. I think the Public Analyst of each health district should ask 
for specimens of water here and there, as representing the general 
. supply throughout the several centres of population, and the results 
should be published with as much regularity by the health authorities as 
is done in other matters connected with the general health of the com- 
munity. The well in Havelock near the hotel, at the junction of the five 
roads, was put down in March, 1892. It has a depth of 325 ft., and 
when inquiry was last made by me it had a flow of 160 gallons a minute. 
The well on the late Canon St. Hill's propertf was put down in June, 
1894. The bore is 3in., the depth 335 ft., and the water rose above 
the surface between 30 ft. and 35 ft. Mr. M. Hardy's well on the Napier- 
Pakipaki Road, opposite the Presbyterian Church, was put down in 1893 
bv Mr. Gilberd. The depth is 403 ft., and the flow of water amounts to 
25 gallons per minute. There are numerous other wells in the locality, but 
each of the gentlemen named as to the effect of the lon 
their flow, especially during the daytime. The information supplied con- 
cerning the wells at Messrs. Borthwick and Sons’ freezing-works, as to 
the effect of the dry summer on the daily supply, is of great interest 
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