The enclosed draft was prepared before Bolte made his pre-election statement on April 21st 1964 that irrespective of the findings of the State Parliamentary Public Works Committee on Melbourne's future water supply, his Government would not permit the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works to take any water from north of the Dividing Range and added insult to injury to his own experts on April 24th by admitting that his government had had such an opinion even before setting up the Committee of Enquiry. The "GUARDIAN" statement by Rex Mortimer of April 30th is based on this draft, and was published to challenge Bolte's unprincipled vote-catching attitude on the issue. However our policy needs to be examined carefully and critically by all comrades likely to have some knowledge about different aspects of it, with a view to evolving a water-plan for Victoria.