TAKAPUNA WATER SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 203, 26 August 1913, Page 8

TAKAPUNA WATER SUPPLY.

NO NEED TO FEAR A FAILURE

AVATER DIVINER'S ASSURANCE,

In his address to the ratepayers at Takapuna last night, Mr. George George made reference to the Lake 'fakapuua water supply. It had been said, l>e remarked, thai lie wae utrongly opposed to .Northcotc. Birkenhead Devonport taking water from the lake. He wae not oppoeed at a.ll to their having water from the lake, but he desired to .sec the control of the water supply vested in the Takapuna Borough Council, so that there should be no waste, as existed at present. For instance, something like three million gallons of water per week were 'being pumped to Devonport. (A voice: "As engineer of the waterworks, 1 any 'No.'") The gentleman who had juiit epolcen had just shown tho speaker his book, and said ho could see for himself that there was nearly three million gallons being punfped. If the audience worked out tho consumption per head on a population basis, they would see that that consumption was out of reason. The matter of detecting tho waste would coßt something like C 7, the ciwt of it "detectomcter." Tliat was one direction in which the Takitpuna Council, as controlling body, could prevent wnflte. ■ That morning the speaker had spent, sunn' time with the Eov. Mr. Muson. one of the greatest witter diviners in the southern hemisphere, uud they hud had sonic very interesting results. H wits known Mint the lake wad fall in;.-, -but little w.iri known about the source of the lake's supply. Some yean* aj;o there was a theory about the eource of the lake's supply eotning from Kangitoto, Mr. Mason that morning located large stream of water running between tho lake nnd the sea— nttlior to or fro, lie could not say which—nnd n remarkable thing was that the course of tht»se utrnanu* pointed directly to Rangitoto. The only way to find out if the eupplv really came from Kitngitoto was to make a thorough investigation, and Mr. Mason had promised to make a thorough investigation should ho be aeked to do It h-irl been a fcituro of Mr. Mason's experiments in Auckland, that lie always found n large Rupply of water below each crater, and it would only I* in .ncooT\l with h"w experience to llnd a riupply of water below the crater on Rangitoto. In any ca.-,e. Mr. Ma«on Jiad n-iiirretl the speaker that hi« rx pcrimrnts had convinced him that there j w;ir- plenty of water to be obtained in Tnk.ipun.i by boring, so that the rcoidents need have no fear for the future.