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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 32

University Laboratory, Dunedin, 25rd April, 1874

page 13
University Laboratory, Dunedin,

Robert Gillies, Esq.,

Dear Sir—I have to acknowledge your communication of yesterday referring to my Report of 13th inst. on the Dunedin water, and requesting replies to a series of questions, "to elicit the real facts in a form which every one can understand."

Now I do not see how any one can fail to understand that Report, so far as it goes, especially if read in its true character, as a supplement to my Report of 30th June of last year.

It is not, as already explained, like the former Report, founded on a complete analysis of the water. It deals only with the total solid residue, and the total organic matter present in the water at the time of analysis. There is a column devoted to the results obtained under each of these two headings; the same columns also show the proportion of total solid residue and of total organic matter obtained from other well-known sources of water supply in various parts of Europe.

Every one, therefore, who reads my Report, has the means of comparing in these respects the Dunedin Company's water with the other waters quoted.

However, with the view of removing any misunderstanding that may exist, I shall with pleasure comply with your request.

J. G. Black

, Provincial Analyst.