. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. for the higherlevels is raised by means of electric motors frojn KhyberPass to Mount Eden Reservoir, and from tlieie i)art ofthe supply is gravitated to Mount Hobson Reservoir,which serves Remuera and Tamaki West districts. The inci-ease of the persons supplied with water hasbeen fairly regulai during the past twenty years, asshown hereunder : - Date. Popidation supplied Increase,with water. 1900 52,000 1905 62,000 10,000 1910 75,000 ,000 1915 94,000 19,000 1920 107,000 13,000 Total increase, 55,000 or over 100%in 20 ye
. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. for the higherlevels is raised by means of electric motors frojn KhyberPass to Mount Eden Reservoir, and from tlieie i)art ofthe supply is gravitated to Mount Hobson Reservoir,which serves Remuera and Tamaki West districts. The inci-ease of the persons supplied with water hasbeen fairly regulai during the past twenty years, asshown hereunder : - Date. Popidation supplied Increase,with water. 1900 52,000 1905 62,000 10,000 1910 75,000 ,000 1915 94,000 19,000 1920 107,000 13,000 Total increase, 55,000 or over 100%in 20 years. In addition to the natural growth in population ofthe City propei- during the last twenty years. Arch Hil!and Parnell, with a uiiitrd population of 7,969, amalga-mated with the City, in 1913; Grey Lynn, with 8,000, in1914; Eden Terrace and Remuera, with in 1915;and Epsom, with 3,000, in 1917, being a total additionof 26,848. All the districts named, with the exceptionof Epsom, were su{)plied with water finiii the Citymains at the time of amalgamation. 128. INTERIOR OF OLD TYPE OF SERVICE RESERVOIR.
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