WATER BOARD SCHEME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20332, 13 August 1929, Page 10

WATER BOARD SCHEME.

ATTITUDE AT ONEHUNGA.

CONFERENCE WITH MR. POTTER

Details of a conference between Mr. E. 11. Potter, Mayor of Mount Eden, and tho council-in-committee were submitted at a meeting of tho Onehunga Borough Council last evening. It was stated that Mr. Potter asked the council to reconsider its decision not to support tho proposed Auckland Water Board Bill. His own opinion was that all underground supplies would eventually be condemned, probably within the next 12 months, and if another epidemic broke out they would probably be condemned immediately. The board would supply water only in bulk. Tho price would bo Is a thousand gallons, but as sooij as the consumption reached 6,000,000 gallons a day the cost would be reduced to 7d, and when it reached 12.000,000 gallons it would be 4d. He had obtained firm tenders for the cost of pipe-laying, jointing, etc., of 30 miles of 39 inch pipe, and about four miles of 16-inch pipe, which was sufficient to deliver 15,000.000 gallons n day, at a total price of £317,000. The whole cost of the scheme would not exceed £700,000.

Tho supply would be by gravitation, and even if Onehunga joined tho board it would not be compelled to take wafer from it. Ho anticipated (hat all the farmers along tho route would strongly support the scheme. When the board was formed it would be in a position to supply water in about 18 months. The matter was deferred for further consideration.