Otama Rural Water Scheme committee member Hamish Mackay, Governance and Administration Select Committee members Dr Jian Yang and chairman Brett Hudson, water supply committee chairman Tom Affleck and select committee member Hamish Walker visit a farm served by the water scheme. Eastern Southland farmers made passionate pleas to politicians to grant them ownership of the Otama Rural Water Scheme at a Select Committee hearing in Gore on Wednesday. In a rare move, members of the Governance and Administration Select Committee traded Wellington for Gore to hear from submitters on the Gore District Council (Otama Water Supply Bill). Rachael Kelly/Stuff Otaama Rural Water Scheme committee chairman Tom Affleck, left, and deputy chairman John Kerse speak at a Governance and Administration Select Committee hearing at Gore on Wednesday. Gore District councillor and water scheme committee member John Gardyne said if the council took over the scheme, its management would be "dominated by councillors".

Source: Stuff November 07, 2018 04:52 UTC