PLAINS WATER SUPPLY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4466, 13 September 1922, Page 1

PLAINS WATER SUPPLY.

NETHERTON SETTLER’S VIEW. Speaking evidently with a sound knowledge of t.he subject, Mr A, Carter gave his views at the Nethertph ratepayers’ meeting on Friday on the possibilities of a fresh water supply for the Hauraki Plains.

Mr Carter said one of the matters of greatest importance tp the Hauraki Plains was the fresh water scheme. He had put dewn ever 200 bores cn the Hauraki Plains, and -»e knew the problems the Plains farmers were up against. He had seen the report on the proposal to bring water frbm the western hills. A committee, of which he had been one, had once been farmed at Ngatea. He had obtained particulars from an. engineer and a rough estimate given of the amount, of water required. The scheme of the Hauraki Plains would cost them at least half a million. The watering of the Hauraki Plains was one that had to come. Such a scheme was Worth getting the advice of an expert engineer on, and would be worthy of getting the engineer who engineered the Yanko scheme, containing fourteen times ,as much water as in the Auckland Harbour. He took exception to the consulting engineer’s statement that .the streams from the western hills ran practically the same amount of water in ths summer as in the winter.

Ten years hence, he continued, would see the town population require twice as much, water as the present population. He would be sorry to sei a small scheme undertaken. No objection would be raised to settlements undertaking their own small schemes, but the big scheme must come. It was, however, a question of when and how.