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Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on the System of Deep Well Boring and the Use of Diamond Drills, 1903
Your Committee beg to report that the evidence given clearly shows the great advantages farmers and others derive from the use of diamond and other drills, and also the indirect benefit which naturally accrues to the country at large in con sequence. This Committee recommends that drills capable of boring in soft formation should (wherever practicable) be of 6 inch diameter, and in the harder formation of 4 inch diameter, the object being to enable a much larger volume of water to rise or be pumped to the surface as the case may be. Your Committee are further of Opinion that the present system of charges to farmers and others hiring drills is very unsatisfactory, and as the Commissioner of Public Works has stated in evidence that Government practically pay two thirds of the cost of boring, and his and other evidence go to prove conclusively that the average cost of boring is �1 per foot, they suggest that the Government should take into consideration the question of framing a new. Scale of charges in lieu of the present complicated system on the follow ing basis, namely, that the farmer or other personhiring the drill pay at least one-third of the cost, and not more than one-half, such charge not to exceed 10s. Per foot up to a depth Of 500 feet, and tlhat the hirer's liability should commence and end t ere. From the evidence before the Committee it is clearly proved that the number Of drills possessed by the Government at the present time is altogether inadequate, and they strongly recommend that the Government should take into consideration the urgent necessity that exists for very largely increasing the number at an early date, and that, as this question Of water-boring is in their Opinion Of such importance to the country at large, the Government should take into consideration the advisability Of making sufficient provision on this year's Supplementary Estimates for purchasing additional drills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
