MORE QUESTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 544, 22 December 1928, Page 7

MORE QUESTIONS

BUILDING HUIA DAM LETTER TO CITY COUNCIL The following further letter has been Addressed to the City Council by Mr. H. P. Taylor in connection with the Huia dam: The Town Clerk. Dear Sir. — Further to my application in person this morning: to the city treasurer for accurate or authentic figures as to expenditure of loan and other monies on waterworks as set out hereunder; and to his request that the information required by me be submitted in writing to the “proper quarter”; and to his promise that he would supply full information from the records in the city treasury under his control, at the very lirst upportunity, after receiving my list of requirements. I now have the pleasure of submitting my list of present requirements, viz: Dates: 1 — Dates of borrowing the £300.0u0 (authorised by poll November 28, 1923) or portions thereof, in or about 1923 or 1924 for Huia (dam, pipeline, aquaduct. etc.), permanent works. 2 Total amount spent thereout on the above mentioned Huia works. 3 Full details of headings of expenditure of the balance of that £300.000 loan money. 4Of the £ 415,793 9s 5d now admitted by you to be the actual amount expended at May 31 last for Huia permanent works, how much of this represented payments out of loan money available at the time of payment, and how much of it to date has been charged against the loans aggregating £500.000. for Huia and other waterworks **

5 Upon what other works has the balance of the £500,000 been spent, and when? 6 Date of borrowing the first £200,000 in or about 1926 of the £400,000 authorised in that year for waterworks purposes. At that date how much and from what fund had been spent in anticipation of procuring that £200,000? 7 From that £200,000, how much has been spent on the aforementioned Huia permanent works? g—On what works has the balance, if any. of that £200,000 been expended —and when? 9 What amount out of the next £200,000 now' about to be borrowed (to complete the £700,000 of water loans authorised by ratepayers, November, 1923, and April, 1926, is now required to replenish general revenue or district fund account in respect of “these loan works” to which your published replv of the 20th inst. to my letter of objection of the 13th inst. refers, and vvliat are “these loan works” (other than Huia permanent works) upon which since the initiation of the £700,000 loan scheme, loan money has been or is being spent. Please give individual terms. 10 — On what waterworks has the £30,102 13s Id (being the undetailed difference between the £114,355 19s 5d paid out of general revenue from April 1 to November 30, 1925. and the £84.253 6s 4d debited against Huia permanent works) been spent? 11 — Total amount expended to this date on Huia permanent works, and “these loan works” (particularising the individual works and their respective costs, (a) out of £700,000 loan money, (b) out of general revenue or district fund account.

12— City engineer’s estimate, if he can supply one. of the probable further amount required as from November 30 last for the completion of the Huia permanent works (Including dam, pipeline and aquaduct, etc.), but exclusive of filtration plant. 13— Number (approximate) cubic yards still required of concrete to be made and used to complete the Huia dam and the estimated cost thereof per cubic yard. 14— The actual cost to date of purchase and development of the stone quarry at the Huia. 15— The total cost of the tramline to date. 16— The cost of the small dam constructed apparently for the purpose of generating electric light (such cost to include generating plant, track, pipeline and housing plant) and other incidentals. What quantity of water is available from that dam at present? Is it sufficient for double shift requirements during this summer? 17— The cost of the double shift from Its initiation to this date. 17a—The comparative results as between day and night shift costs. 18— What is to be the total height of Huia dam completed? What is*its nresent height from toe of foundation bed? 19— What is the explanation of the three estimates allegedly supplied by the city engineer for the Huia dam works, including the acquisition of land and mains from the dam to the oity. viz., (a) .C 459.000, (b) £493.000, ic) JC 497,000? Wishing you the compliments of the season. Yours faithfully (signed), H. P. Taylor.