TAKAPUNA VIEW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 8

TAKAPUNA VIEW.

"FRANTIC WITH JOY. ,,

MR. GUINIVEN'S PREDICTION.

Mr. .T.ihn Cuiiiiveii, Mayor of Takatpnna. commenting on the Board of Health's decision to link up with the cfty water supply, said "the people of Takapuna will gi> frantic with jov when they read tin*, decision in the 'Star , to-night.' , "I have been an opponent of the Wai rau .-dieme since UI2.V added Mr. (iuiiiivvn. I fought it two years before I joined the council. It will be remembered that the 'Star' wa<s good enough to give me much publicity in my fight. The public will aleo remember in'y light against the Lower Wairau scheme when it was proposed to purchase a site, build a filtration plant near the Wairau Bridge and put in a pipe-line at a cost of £12.000. This is not the latest scheme to purchase the valley, but the filtration plant wou'd have been put in where piggeries and cowshed* drain into the area.

"Later Dr. Chesenn, of the Health Department.,, said Mr. (iiiiniveii, "condemned the site a* unsuitable, and then came the proposal to buy 1200 acres near the Upper Wairau. My opposition to this on the Water Board was registered before I was reinforced by Mr. Will-* and then by Mr. Aldridge, who has been a tower of strength in the fight againet this proposal.

"Xow that it is settled,' , he concluded, "we will get on with it. This means everything to Takapuna. Some time ago the Minister of Health, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, told me that the Government regarded Takanuua as a most desirable residential euburb for State housing. Xow that the matter of bad water has been overcome, I predict that Takapuna will go ahead by leaps and bounds. There i« no question that the health of the people will improve. North Shore doctors will 'be delighted."'