NO EXCUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 224, 20 September 1940, Page 4

NO EXCUSE.

FOR BAD WATER. HEALTH jMINISTER'S COMMENT "There is no excuse for any thickly populated area such North Shore being without a pure ''and adequate' water supply," said the Minister of Health, the Hon. H. T. Armstrong, this morning when asked whether official representation*, had been made to him concerning the position of the water supply in the boroughs across the harbour. Mr. Armstrong he had had personal experience of the North Shore water supply as he had spent holidays there and had not been favourably impressed with the position. He was not referring to any recent visits he had made. .He had been for fourteen years a member of the Local Bills Committee of tlfe House of Representatives, and he was conversant with the problems of most local authorities. The North Shore water trouble had come before him on numerous occasions. While no representations had been made to him during his visit by local bodies in the district affected, he had no doubt that the Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, and the deputy-Director, Dr. R. A. Shore, who were now in Auckland, were making themselves, thoroughly conversant with the position.