WATER FOR WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 7

WATER FOR WELLINGTON.

HEW PIPE LINE DELAYED.

DELIVERY NOT YET BEGUN- »

A delay in the laying of a new Wellington witter main, similar to that experienced in Auckland, is causing concern to the officials of the Wellington City Council. The cause is a late delivery of pipes by the Spiral and Lock Bar Steel Pipe Company, of Wanganui. The tender of the company to supply mains with which" to convey the Orongorongo water supply from the tunnel to the Karori dam was accepted early this year. Deliveries were to have com* menced in July, and continued according to an agreed scale, until the contract was completed. So far, however, no pipes have been delivered to the corporation, and, owing to a delay in obtaining, certain plant fropi Melbourne, it is not thought likely that any will come to hand for some time. When the contract was let, it was considered an urgent matter that the main should be laid as speedily as possible, so that the new supply of water could reinforce the supply to the higher levels of the city. As things are at present, pays a Wellington : paper, tKe only service the Orongorongo supply can do is to augment the flow into the Morton dam, when that receptacle requires such aid. The water of the Orongorongo is now flowing down its old channel into Cook Strait.