"FACTS" AND THE WATER SUPPLY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5799, 29 April 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

"FACTS" AND THE WATER SUPPLY.

To the Editor : Sir, — In last evening's Star si correspondent, signing himself "Facts.," btatus that you are "rather in haste to father theories that are not always right because they appear so." TTe also states that as regards " the reason why the puinpnitf niachmery was not built close to the .springs,"' that he "thinks it is possible the springs might have been totally destroyed if the excavations hftd taken place there ; and

no doubt i fii greater saving is effected in ]i iviutj tlif puiiiping-houao close to the load. ' X'»v lIk hi mot Mr. "Facts" tor going fioin the springs will not hold w itei, as already tlit iu is a spaco of about l."> .u its laid bvif, in ordci to form a poud, so there would have been no additional dangei of losing the springs on that score. As he says that there is a gicat «aving effected by having the pumping ma- < luriery some 300 yards distant from the springs, how much greater a saving -would it have been, and how much " safer " for the springs, if the pumping machinery had been erected at the base of the hill, some 200 j ards nearer Auckland ? In that case, Boyd's oi Carders' pipes would have sufficed to carr\ the water direct from the springs to thi bottom of the hill, instead of importing ex pensn o iron mains for that purpose. Now. Mi Editor, will "Facts" inform us how many thousand pounds would have been saved to the ratepayers if that coarse had be«n adopted '! Also, how much would have been saved per annum in the bhorter carriage of coals for the engine ' Mr. " Facts ' bays, (1 It ;s surprising how ready un professional meu are to find fault, auelwutt about matteis of w Inch they know little oi nothing." Surely, he does not call lnni-d 1 a •' a professional" man; at all event-, in one would think so from his writings Heals 0 says that the "engineer is of opinion that withm a few minutes of the watei issuing from the spuugs, it will tind it- \iav to the pumping-well." Xow, will " F.i< ts inform us how many minutes will eLip»u before the water is in full circulation ovei the shallowest uncovered 15-acre re=;ci voir '' Will it take a few minute -, or will it take a few da\s? It would appear that because it is the opinion ot an engineer that it would be better, M*- " Facts" would prefer to drink water from the l.Vacre pond, which is open to e\erj impurity, and exposed to the ravs of the sun I am of opinion, however, that 999 out >>i everythousandofthe citizens of Auckland will agree with Mr. Firth, and prefer to get th» water direct from the fountain head. — I am. &c , Resi rc: vh.