REMUERA WATER SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 3

REMUERA WATER SUPPLY.

-.a; communication -was -received -at - tha City Council last evening from the Reniuera Road Board, inquiring on what terms the Council would supply the Remuer'a Road; District' with water frbin Mount Eden Reservoir. The Board understood that Mount Eden Borough Council desired to be supplied from this reservoir at a cost of 1/ per thousand ' gallons, and that owing to the increased volume of consumption it would be possible to supply Remuera at the' same rate. The Board.would, if the contract was entered-into, put in .the 'connection and meter at the reservoir, and no cxi pendituie" "would be incurred by the Council, a lv. reference to the -application the I waterworks engineer (Mr. J. Carlaw) ' - j reported that if the supply was granted at.-l/ per thousand gallons that pdr- *| tion of, the Mount: Eden Borough now ■' paying 1/3 would have to" be reduced to 1/, and-a in any case the supply to Reniuera would have to depend on the Council deciding to proceed -with the j building of an -additional reservoir on fiuount Eden -at one,"' The'report went; :A on to state tiiat the out-districts supplied by Khyber Pass reservoir had-the-right of Mount Eden pressure in case ; of fire, at.-Khyber rate, and - that the-portion of Mount Eden -that -would ; have to-be reduced from 1/3 would have -to-be allowed for. This loss would mean on A last year's, consumption." of 16 million ; gallon £200," less allowance "for fire, while the increase "of revenue by' supplying Remuera would be £750," or a vet increase v - of £550, with a prospect' of 'future;in? crease. The matter was referred to~*i*e Electric and Water - Comnritte*;-;'A" . . ■