HIGH WATER COST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 7

HIGH WATER COST

riTY SUPPLY AND MT. f ALBERT unking with onehunga? Mount Albert Borough Council will investigate a proposal t„ discontinue paying “exorbitant charges*’ for water from the City Coune I’s supply and the desirability of linking with Onehunga’s supplyThe question was raised last even- , „ when Mr. .1. R. Langley brought forward a motion suggesting a. communication from the town clerk to ,T,„ onehunga Borough Council with reference to supplying Mount Albert :»|i filter. prior to the raising of the question, he council had approved a recommendation in which the council underinok to make a new payment of Is -a for 1 000 gallons of water from the Stv Council. Mr. Langley thought all The data possible on an One'.iungavtount Albert plan shoudl be collected. •■The city’s charge of Is 3d is exorbitant ’’ he said. “Onehunga has an excellent spring and the Health Denartment's analysis has shown the „mter to be better.” The Mayor, Mr. L. E. Rhodes, said he would prefer sending the proposal to the council s joint committee, and Mr Langley agreed to this. He said i a'had come before the council with a full assurance that the council could approach Onehunga. ■We are now getting chlorinated •nrface water," remarked Mr. H. Kaves “We could install a chlorinating plant for our own spring.’’ Mr J. Taylor: Our spring might not mfet a full demand. but it would a u-ment,an Onehunga supply. The motion for investigation by the joint committee was carried unani-