HOWICK WATER SUPPLY
QUALITY SATISFACTORY Advice has been received by tho ITowick Town Hoard from the Health Department that the water from the shaft at Pigeon Alountain, Pakurangu, is satisfactory after chlorination f° r use as a town supply. The shaft is sunk to a depth of through a scoria bed on the slope of Pigeon Alountain, and in a recent test approximately 300,000 gallons of were pumped in about 32 hours, without reducing the level of the watei. The water reticulation proposal * the town district is going before th«. Local Government Loans Board at th" same time as the concrete Joan P r P“ posal and, if sanctioned, will be placed before the ratepayers at an early date.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 781, 30 September 1929, Page 16
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119HOWICK WATER SUPPLY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 781, 30 September 1929, Page 16
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