NORTH SHORE WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 30, 6 February 1928, Page 6

NORTH SHORE WATER.

.11 like a tnni c to read the optimisti, views ot some public men on the Xorth Si™, in regard to Lake Pupuke, and it is fmntr also to read of those who think they ]Sw discovered something, who seem to be tumbling over one another in their anxietv to tell whit a magnificent water supply the* lake is' in that the latter have told us was known « long ago as 1910 when the lake fell to two feet ■ four inches above sea level, and the alarmists started to buy tanks by the score in the belief that the water supply had failed, but the lake stood up to almost as severe a test as it k going through now. Thirteen seasons have gone past, and it has not got down to sea level yet. At a conservative estimate, a gallons a day is being taken from it, and where is this water conning from? Certainly not from the heavens. The purity of the Ith supply is beyond question, and while it is agreed that with the increased demand it will have to be augmented soon, that supply should coat from an untainted source. Unfortunately the letter written by Mr. John Hislop last week and signed as Deputy-Mayor of Devonport, instead of throwing much light on the future water supply of the North Shore onlv confuses the issue. Any person who resurrects the Wairau scheme at this stage of the game, after it has been dead and buried because of the fiery-tongued disease-carrying mosquitoes whjcfc breed there, when a good supply can be got from somewhere else by payment for it, is not a benefactor. The excrescences of a dirtv creek will never appeal to North Shore people ai a water supply, even although mixed with the pure water of Lake Pupuke. W. K. HOWITT.