HOWICK WATER SUPPLY
TENDER FOR RESERVOIR Ten tenders for the erection of a rfj-st inforced concrete reservoir with a caip e acity of 75,000 gallons on StockAc /e Hill, Howick, were received at a m/e<Aing of the Howick Town Board, on Thursday evening. The prices rail/ged from £1,064 to £1,365, while the; estimate of the board’s engineer, Mr.,A. T. Walker was £1,130. A meeting,- 4>r the waterworks committee yestenJely decided to accept the lowest tende /, made by H. Bray and Company, X'fcd., for £1,064 6s. The engineer reported to *Jh e meeting of the Town Board that the water reticulation In the townshlTA area was well advanced and severp.l. hew properties would be linked tivf within the next few weeks, and Chef s /pply for the Howick portion of the. c/mcrete highway was now started. The cutting down off Stockade Hill to the new level 1;;m/ Seen completed and good use had hrgen made of the spoil in widening of Uxbridge and Church The footpath and stormwater draina/gA scheme was within a few days of fc/bmpletion.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1028, 19 July 1930, Page 5
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