TAKAPUNA'S WATER,

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 228, 25 September 1940, Page 6

TAKAPUNA'S WATER,

After my Saturday night's bath (not the weekly one of fiction), I checked up on the various qualities of our Takapuna water as set out in the recent article in the "Star," and find the position is in no way over-etated; on the contrary, we have several odds and ends in our water that your sleuth has overlooked. After my "bath (save the mark) I had a eponge down with a bucket of rain water and not until then was I fit to don clean sleeping attire. Will the powers make up their minds -what is to be done ? The water can be improved by taking- the intake pipe on pontoons to the centre of the lake. This wae strongly advised by Mr. Justice Blair, Sir Arthur Dobson. an eminent engineer of Christchurch. and Mr. Baker, district engineer to the Public Works Department, sitting in 1927 as a TJoyal Commission. Thici is not an expensive stopgap, but in 13 years nothing has been done. Why? I can eay with certainty that much of the trouble arkes from dirty pipes. It cannot be long before the Minister of Health steps in, but in the meantime North Shore residents should arise in their thousands and make protest, loud and long. Northeoie has, I understand, had her drains cleaned and cement-lined and complaints are rare. Why cannot we do the same? From being, shall we say, the Psyche of the Auckland suburbs, as intended by Nature, we bid fair to become it* Cinderella and not a very eanitary and healthy lass at that! J. W. WILSON.