NORTH SHORE WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 9

NORTH SHORE WATER.

:CONCERN UNWARRANTED^

LEVEL OP. LAKE PUPUKE

BY■": BOARD,

/Tfia-conccrn.'expressed by the .Norths cote,"Borough .'. Council -regarding the wtiter,-supply from Lake -Pupuke.i was . STpjmdlesSj-.'according-- to tlfe chairman .'of tie .North Shore 'Water Board, Mr. J, P. McPhail, who said tlie position was - n o^inore ? serious 'at ; present than it liad; . » ■ -'■ to tlie Northcote.'Borough reported'•■ to the."-:council-. last : that ! :\thc. amount ;of "water .-" from', the: lake .last month -was injexcess of that for : any -previous .years.; 'The:-level ; of was -now lift -lOJin.--. below p0 .???alj and 10J inches above; high .water. fflOTk;'.The Jeyel was.higher-thah at this' • but ;he- considemble' drop ■before the end of the -month. ;

ij^ e " kike level; has been ■ going down ,' for about the past eight years, a^the:rato;of .some J.2in,a:year," said; ■;':'; chairman of the. ..Northj , Shore-Water Board, "but there-is noth-| ■;■:-. in .gvto:,worry about. The boroughs are. takiug-steps to see. that, the water supv P J y>ls;:conserved in the most efficient -' JK» and that being the case I"think -: were is no needfor anxiety."/'",: ;. ;"■ <\ : ■.'M'> % r -as '■= JDevonport- was:, concerned, clerk of the borough, Mr. A. E. i said.that: Devonport,had been '.. »mg .the, amount of .'.'-water,/used. ' ■ • l 50,000,000-gallons less ..used: .« present, than, fiver years, ago. The . , porpugh ■ was also extending .its-; intake "•■ . As, far as' the other North Shore oorpughs.are concerned, it was explained toat adequate measures :]. were 'being ..taken, to conserve the water. As Mayor ?f Birkenhead, Mr. McPhail,' said: that, lis_ council was carefully scrutinising such extras as hose licenses,, while Northcote, according to last night's meeting, •, "as,deckled to take action against cons'V?wb who disregard the by : laws,;by • - excessive,:use of garden sprinklers. Taka- . puna': buys, it's -water ■ from :■ Devonport,.-.