HOLSWORTHY'S Freeman has started a petition to save the former water pump in the Square.

The suggestion, made in the Draft Vision and Action Plan for Holsworthy (as previously reported in the 'Post'), that the town's iconic pump might be removed from the Square and relocated in Manor Court has so incensed one Holsworthy woman that she is organising a petition to save it.

Doreen Buckingham, who currently holds the civic honour of Freeman of Holsworthy for her services to the community, considers it strange that the proposal should ever have been made at a time when people set great store on trying to preserve their local history and traditions.

See what Doreen had to say about the issue in this week's 'Post'.