TOWN WATER SUPPLIES.
LARGE ENGLISH COMPANY. FORMER OFFICIAL'S VISIT. A visitor to Auckland by the Corinthic from Southampton yesterday was Mr. J. H. Cornwell, of Birmingham, who has recently retired from the position of secretary to the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company, and who is touring the world on a health-recruiting trip. Mr. Cornwell said he had not been in a position so far to acquaint himself with Auckland water supply matters, except to learn that the system was different from lhat of the company with which he had been concerned. The South Staffordshire Waterworks Company was probably the. largest waterworks company in England, and owned a system of 19 pumping stations, which supplied about 60 towns and villages, with a total population ot' 1,000,000. The output from the pumping plants was 24.000,000 gallons a day. A very heavy coal consumption was entailed in pumping this large amount of water, since all the plants, except the latest one to be installed, were driven by steam power. Ihe most recent station erected by the company utilised electricity for its pumping machinery, and the efficiency obtained was a marked advance upon the older types of plant. Mr. Cornwell. who is accompanied ly Miss L. Cornwell. is a through passenger to Brisbane.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 10
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TOWN WATER SUPPLIES.
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20866, 7 May 1931, Page 10
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