WATER FOR PAPATOETOE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 12

WATER FOR PAPATOETOE

LOAN POLL NEXT WEEK RETICULATION OF TOWN All the; necessary spade-work has now been completed in connection with the proposed water-supply for the Papatoetoe Town District. The Local Bodies Loans Board has sanctioned the raising of a loan of £40,000, with a reconn ndation that for the present requirements the amount be limited lo £26,000. The smaller amount will permit of every dwelling in the town district being connected with the mains. The balance will be held over pending the formation of new roads. The Town Board has received the assurance of the Loans Board that when it is found necessary to increase the reticulation scheme it will be permitted to call up the balance of the amount. The sanction of the ratepayers to the raising of the money will be sought on Wednesday next. A ratepayers’ meeting will be held in the Papatoetoe Town Hall on Monday evening, when the engineers, Messrs. Jones and Adams, will explain the walking of the scheme. The work proposed to be carried out with the £26,000, and pending the raising of the whole amount, consists of the installation of a chlorination plant, pumps and rising main to a reservoir to be built on McLaughlin’s Hil# and the pump-head. The pipe-line to the town, is also included in this amount, also the reticulation of the supply to every dwelling in the district. The completed scheme provides for the building of a high-pressure water tower on Mulcock’s Hill, and the probable reticulation of neighbouring portions of the Manukau County areas. The well to be utilised is situated on Mr. Wills McLaughlin’s estate at Puhinui, about two miles from the town district, and has been tested to give an approximate flow of 1,000,000 gallons of water a week. Health Department analyses of the water show it to be of excellent quality. The rental of the site of the shaft is £2O a year for the first ten years, rising by £lO a year each ten years, to a maximum of £SO per annum. In the event of any metropolitan scheme eventuating in the future, the proposed scheme has been designed to fit in with the major scheme. It is intended, as fai* as possible, to raise the money for the works only as required,, thereby effecting a considerable saving in interest for* the first year. For the protection of property from fire the town in greatly in need of a water supply. The epidemic of fires during the past year would not have had such disastrous results if the district had had a water scheme. The town clerk told a Sun man the approximate cost of the proposed scheme to the owner of a. section valued at £2OO would be as under; Amount of the loan to be raised £26,000 per cent.-p.a. interest . . . . 1,430 1 per cent. p.a. sinking- fund . . 260 £1,690 10 per cent, additional margin 169 Total annual charges on loan £1,859 Total rateable value of town district . . *. . , . £356,107 1.26 d in the £ on rateable value produces £1,869 Example of cost on property, of a rateable value of £2oo: £ s. d. Rate of 1.26 d in the £ on the unimproved, or rateable value of £2OO .1 I 0 Flat charge for water . . . . 1 1.0 0

Total . £2 11 0 Or less than Is a week.