SUPPLY OF WATER
SCHEME FOR WHANGAREI
AN ANSWER TO CRITICS
O.C. WHANGAREI, Friday. An answer to critics of the action of the Whangarei Borough Council in securing an auxiliary water supply from the Hatea River was given as the result of tests before a special meeting of the council last night. The analysis and bacteriological tests revealed that the Hatea River water was superior to Whau Valley water, one of the sources for some years, and approximately equal to that from Maunu.
The chairman of the waterworks committee, Mr. Grosby, said the majority of ratepayers in voting against the loan proposal evidently misunderstood the issue. < The Mayor, Mr. Jones, said if the council needed exoneration it had it from the tests. The ratepayers had been weighed by prejudice against Hatea water, but the council had taken the only action possible to relieve the acute summer shortage. It would not be possible to proceed with the major Poroti scheme for about eight years.
The council resblved to remove the restrictions on the use of water for gardens and lawns. A meeting of borough ratepayers is being convened to form a Ratepayers' Association "with a view to preventing unauthorised expenditure, such as the Hatea River scheme." -
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 76, 31 March 1945, Page 10
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