. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. in falls, where the sidesof the liver contract, but on account of the compara-tive steepness of the sides of the valley above, it hashad to be constructed to a hei<;ht of 146 feet from riverbed to weir level. The dam, which is designed as agravitation dam. is curved on i)lan, the radius being450 feet, and the maximum length will be, approxi-mately, 540 feet, while the maximum thickness is 104feet, at the toii to 1-2 feet. The total «|uan-tity of water impounded will be )1() million water area
. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. in falls, where the sidesof the liver contract, but on account of the compara-tive steepness of the sides of the valley above, it hashad to be constructed to a hei<;ht of 146 feet from riverbed to weir level. The dam, which is designed as agravitation dam. is curved on i)lan, the radius being450 feet, and the maximum length will be, approxi-mately, 540 feet, while the maximum thickness is 104feet, at the toii to 1-2 feet. The total «|uan-tity of water impounded will be )1() million water area of the Reseivoir, when full, will be 36acres, while the total aiea of the ^atheiing ^Iouml is2,400 acres. It is expected that the Dam will be completed inthe fiist half of 1923. It is being constructed of mass concrete, with blue-stone plums or sinkers embedded, and will contain,when finished, ujnvards of cubic yaids of conCrete. The Xihotupu Stream, with the two reservoirsabove described, is exiiected to yield a daily supply of5 million gallons of water. 101. NIHOTUPU (MAINi DAM. SHOWING WORK IN PROGRESS. Arc I) MISUUAl. IIASJJJiOOK. Tlic coiisl iiutiiMi (if the scivicc rcscivuirs has varied accordiii, to llie time of their consli-uct i l)iil those miii-e recently creeled !i;i\i heeii luiiH of reiii-f-orced concret(\ with \-eilical walls and Ieinfoiced con-crete Ioofs. The s(M-\ ice IJescMVoirs situated at ArchHill and Khybii- Pass have each a cai);icity of threemillion jiallons, with a dei)th of ±1 feet 6 inches, whilea third on Monid Kden has a depth of 15 feet and acapacity of one and a half million gallons. CITY MARKETS. Aucklands first Municipal Markets were situatedbetween Wellesley Street and Cook Stieet, and wereopened in 1873. They weie used until l!HT, when thefirst of the two new buildings, situated in CustomsStreet West, was o])en(Ml. The old Markets weredemolished in 1921. The present buildinj^s weie erected from the de-signs of the City Engineer, f
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