LAKE TAKAPUNA'S FATE

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 162, 9 July 1914, Page 4

LAKE TAKAPUNA'S FATE

fWATER CCXSKEEVATIOX UKGED. * >A pro-posaj which aroused a. a&ai dejJ of di&eusskm at tie conference of I the four bcrough councils of ti>e Vorft Shore last night was -one wl. , affirmed -That a Water Supply Board was &J cirable for the Xorth Shore borough, and that rhe membero of rh-s 2?' Takapuna Board of Control be requested bo-report, to .the next- conference on this proposal." Mr. Greeneladn iXorfhoote) and slt Piokfnrtl iDftvonpor) prnpceed / seconded a motion fin'bodying this pro. pasal. Mr. Grimwavip (Takapuna.) submitted that tho setting up r>f a Water Supply Board had not-hinj: t-v df> with the late board of control which had b?en set up for the specific purpo&e of oanservhw the waters of the like. The ol" Takapuna, Mr. Gnmwade said, felt ' very strongly on this qw=6tion. At.aa. «th<>r stage of ihfi hf ha 4 ex. th* , opinion that Lh<> feeling m Takapuna that, ilvpy had iheen robbrd of thpir 'birtkright. llie hard part of i: was that it had all been done quit e xitliin the law. iMeantimc the waters of the iako were rrrtedinfr rapidly. H had gone do-mi another inch and a-half month —a wet month. The othp ■boroughs wcro intereeted in the lan* I (inly as a eo-urov of water-supply, but tie ires-idente oT Takapuna. were interested aleo in ,preserving its beautiee. The other boroughs, Mr. Grim wade eug. g-es-ted. wptp not c(racfmy>i that the lake was becoming "a pit full of 6limv eels." ' Rr. Fullerton fTaka.pujia) agreed with ■Mγ. G-rimwade that another bond wao not nece?earj - . He thought that pressure should' be brought, to 'bear on the GOTerrememt to give- the exietiag Board of Cou-crol to deal -with the. whole question of water -supply. The time -was rapidly .ipproachiag, Dr. Fulle.rton said, n-hen tihr boTOughsu nnwt of nerc£&ity else.whcrp lor. theit % water-supply. Hie feeling was that if there was 'not enough water to supply ail the bnrnug-hs, then vhf. needs of Taka.puaa should , have firsi comiderarion.

■Up moved in t.iip ri.re-.'tioa he ha'j . r-.iijrseste.-l that he made To have tnp ecope of the Board of Con- I .trej e-xtvndeci to cover the whole question of water-supply from the lake Mr. King (BirkeTrhead) seconded the uratioa. Mr. AY. Wallace (Mayor of Birktnlioad) scree<l that the ec>UT.-e snggtstni by Dr. Fullerton "wat ,1. step in the riglifc fiirerti/in. }Ie rem.arkH. i:i paeeing. that the other local bodies appreciated tht , posit ion at the lake fjuitc ac keenly a> 'Mr. Grinnrade did. T:ip amendment pmpewd by Dr. FulIcrton yra& adopted by the meeting.