PAPAKURA WATER SUPPLY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 507, 20 February 1920, Page 3

PAPAKURA WATER SUPPLY

£28,000 PROPOSED LOAN. POLL TO-MORROW. THE RESIDENTIAL RACE. By its proposal to borrow £28,000 for the installation of a water supply from Hunua Falls, this Papakurs Town Board is making a Sold bid for progress, £28,000 is a good round sum, but the tanger the water supply question is left the higher the cost is likely to soar. People who have once lived in a town possessing a municipal water supply are very loath to reside in a place where there : = no such facility. It is so convenient, so valuable, so tremendously appreciated by the housewife for the house, and the husband for both house and garden. A water supply greatly minimises the risk of fire, reduces the danger of disease taking hold, provided .reasonable natural or artificial drainage is obtainable, and is altogether a boon and a blessing In these enlightened days, when everyone wants to get away from the heat and dust of the cities, its noises -md bustling, the suburban town, which offers the best public facilities will assuredly draw the p6pulaLion, and in this respect the Papakura Town Board's proposal is a very wise, far-seeing one. Get water, and half the battle for residential preferment is won! Town sections, which will certanly go up in value, will sell readily; a marked increase in adult population will take place, and there will then be perhaps a third more '•atepayers added to the roll, who will share the burden of the loan with the present ratepayers. Papa<;ura is the furthest out town in the ••üburban area, and therefore it cannot afford to turn down the water 'oan if it wants to progress. Carry the loan proposal. It will be cheaper in the long run than turning it lown, and Papakura will thereby ichieve a premier position as a resilential suburb.