TAKAPUNA'S WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 6

TAKAPUNA'S WATER.

You are to -be commended for your efforts to focus public attention on the need for a decided improvement in the ■water supply at North Shore. I recently arrived from the South and rented a house at Takapuna with the object of 'buying a property there, hut not now. thank you. with the water supply as it is. I was speaking to a gentleman from Te Aroha, who hat just retired, and he also intended settling in Takapuna. but for the same reason he lia-s changed his mind and bought a nome at Tauranga- You can judge from this the effect this disgraceful water supply must have on values and how the residents can so complacently put up with it foeats me. Values. of course, are not the important essential, as health is the major consideration. My kiddies simply won't drink the water, even when boiled. Is it not possible for the Health Department to step in and take the matter out of the hands of those responsible for allowing this intolerable state of affairs to exist? The time is well past for meekly pa=-ing resolutions and I would i»ug?est that the Minister of Health !>e a.~kcd to apain vWt Auckland urgently and receive a deputation from residents of North Shore and to act immediately. If he does not do something, and that urgently, then he is failing in his duty to the people residing in this area. T will undertake to organise the deputation and can promise up to .Win residents to attend. KOYSTON.