WATER FOR CITY

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25047, 10 November 1944, Page 6

WATER FOR CITY

LOWER NIHOTUPU DAM TWO SETS OF PLANS READY The city engineer's department lias completed plans for two alternative types of dam for construction across the Lower Nihotupu Stream. The scheme is a development of the City Council's long-range plans for supplying domestic and industrial consumers with an ample water supply at all times of the year and will be financed from a loan of £.510,000 which was authorised last year. Tenders for the dam will be called almost immediately, and the type of dam to be built will be decided after the tenders have been received. One set of plans is for a multiple-arch type and the other for an earth type, if the former is chosen it will be the first constructed in New Zealand. 7'ie multiple-arch dam consists of a scries of arches on a slope and will have a crest of about 1200 ft in length, with a maximum height ot 80it. J here are 17 arches with hollow buttresses of 7ft Giii in width, with 46ft between the buttresses, and the spillway in the centre of the dam is ;il2it long. r l he dam would require 15,(100 cubic yards of concrete and the work would involve the realignment ot more than 10001 1 of the main highway to Auckland and a new reinforced concrete bridge over the Nihotupu Stream. If the earth dam is selected it. will require 500.000 cubic yards of earth, the soil obtained from the valley and adjacent hillsides. The dam will be faced on the water side with concrete slabs and will have a tapered impervious core of specially selected sou with an 80ft base. The crest will be the same length as the multiple-arch dam iind the same height. Maximum width of the base of the earth dam is 42011 and that of the multiple-arch dam is 115 ft. TRANSPORT RIVALRY RAILWAYS AND SIIUTINU INQUIRY BY COMMITTEE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday The appointment oi a committee to investigate the question of competition , between the railways and coastal ship- ! ping was announced today by the Minister of Transport, Mr O'Brien. The committee lias been appointed under section 11 of the Transport ' Licensing Amendment Act, 19:16. Its . order of reference is to make inquiries generally regarding competition between the railways and coastal shipping, and the desirability _in the ' national interest of controlling that competition and methods to be adopted for such control. Tin; personnel of the committee is: Mr H. B. Smith, assistant Commissioner of Transport (chairman); Mr H. C. ' Langford, commercial manager of railways; Captain S. Holm. New Zealand Shipowners' Federation. The committee will hold public sittings, which will commence in the near future. 1 ARCHDEACON'S DEATH i VEN. WILLIAM BULLOCK ; (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday The death has occurred of the Venerable William Bullock, archdeacon of Wellington, formerly vicar of Master- ' ton and vicar of St. Peter's, Welling--1 ton. Archdeacon Bullock was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1885, and was 1 educated at King's College, London. He 1 was made a deacon in 1914, and became ' a priest the following year. lie was ? curate of All Saints', Chatham, from

1914 to 191 o, and of St. John the Evangelist, Bromley, Kent, from 191(3 to 1918. He was chaplain to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force from 1918 to 1919. and saw service in France. On coming to New Zealand, Archdeacon Bullock took up the duties of organising secretary of the Church of i England Men's Society. He was ap- ■ pointed vicar of Masterton in 1922 and remained there until 1930. His next transfer was to WellingtonHe was appointed archdeacon of Wairarapa in 19:14 and archdeacon of Wellington in 1910. BAN ON COMMUNISTS LABOUR PARTY'S STAND (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Thursday The stand taken by the New Zealand Labour Party in regard to the Communist Party and the Democratic Labour Party was reaffirmed at the annual conference of delegates today. Remits recommending that the former party be allowed to affiliate and that members of both parties be allowed to ioin the Labour Party were rejected. Further remits that a conference of working class parties be convened and that joint meetings be held between the Communist Party and Labour reuresentation committees were rejected. OBITUARY MR ABEL WARBURTON (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday The death occurred in Hamilton today of Mr Abel Warburton, of Ngaruawahia, aged 82. Mr Warburton was born in the South Island and was trained as a school teacher and in .lournalisim. He taught at Taumarunui and Ngariiawahia.- and edited newspapers in Cromwell, Rotorua, Manaia and Ngaruawaiiia. Mr Warburton was keenly interested in library work and was a regular and frequent newspaper contributor. He was a prominent Freemason. Mrs Warburton died three years ago. ROTORUA FISHING ANGLERS' GOOD REPORTS (0.C.) ROTORUA, Thursday Anglers continue to give reports of excellent sport in the Rotorua district. Fishing Lake Okataina, Messrs P. B. j Walden and J. M. Walker, of Hastings, i secured .'lO fish averaging ojlb, taken on the fly and spoon. One of three fish weighing 7-llb showed a conditioned factor of CO on the English scale. This scale assesses the standard of salmon trout in Home''waters at '3O. Fishing the Kaitnna River from November 1 to November 5, Messrs E. Wright, R. Clifford. F. Briggs and C. Wright-Fulton, of Tauranga, secured a total of 80 on the fly Mr F. Winstone. of Auckland, caught a 101b trout in the Ngongotaha River and limit bags in this stream as well as in the TTtuhina have been taken. At Lake Rotorua. near Ngongotaha. a Matamata party landed 32 fish in the first two days of the season. The Ohau Channel has been well fished and no notable catches have been reported from there this week. In Lake Rotoma the fish have not quite#reeorered from late spawning.