"Cloak of Heaven” is the meaning of Rangitopuni, the name of both the valley and stream on the headwaters of the Waitemata, which has been regarded as a possible source for a water supply to serve the North. Shore boroughs (says the Auckland "Star”). The Rangitopuni is a wide valley, and extremely picturesque, and the measured flow of the stream, which was gauged ai tile end of an ordinary summer, disclosed a flow of 2.000,(100 gallons daily. The extensive watershed of 12.000 acres is fairly well settled, and, as the land lends itself to more intense settlement, reservation of the area for water conservation docs not find a great measure of support, particularly in view of the. fact that a more favoured scheme is the, linking of the northern shore suburbs with the
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 18, 15 October 1927, Page 11
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