NORTH SHORE WATER SUPPLY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 203, 28 August 1935, Page 6

NORTH SHORE WATER SUPPLY.

Recently there was published the substance of a report by the Devonport Borough Council engineer advising the procuring of a water supply from the Upper Wairau Valley, estimates being given of the comparative costs of this scheme and of obtaining a supply from Waitakere. It appears that though the Wairau scheme would involve the continuance of the use of Lake Pupuke for some further forty years at least, there is yet no provision in the estimated costs for the acquisition of vacant land on the lake watershed, nor for the provision of sewer drainage for those houses in the lake watershed that cannot be dealt "with through the existing sewers. Surely even Devonport devotees of the scheme cannot think that alienation of property owners' rights can continue indefinitely without compensation, or that the health authorities will condone indefinitely the non-sewering- of residences on the margin of what is virtually a reservoir. It would be pertinent to ask the Devonport engineer what effect the covering of these further charges would have on his estimate of comparative costs. ONLOOKER.