. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. ewer outlets were increased in number from time totime with the growth of th(> City aiul expansion ofits suburbs, until it became apparent that some im-proved method of sewage disi)osal should be adojited. As early as 1878, Mr. W. Clark, ^V. Inst. , .fLondon, visited Auckland foi the purpose of reportingon the main drainage of the City and certain his leport to the City Council he rcconnncndfd theconstruction of intercepting sewcis. luiniping stations,septic tanks and filters with an outfall in St. (ieorg
. Municipal and official handbook of the City of Auckland, New Zealand. ewer outlets were increased in number from time totime with the growth of th(> City aiul expansion ofits suburbs, until it became apparent that some im-proved method of sewage disi)osal should be adojited. As early as 1878, Mr. W. Clark, ^V. Inst. , .fLondon, visited Auckland foi the purpose of reportingon the main drainage of the City and certain his leport to the City Council he rcconnncndfd theconstruction of intercepting sewcis. luiniping stations,septic tanks and filters with an outfall in St. (ieorgesBay and provision for an extension to Hobson Hay ifoccasion should recpiii-e. Xo action was taken liowc\.>rwith i-egard to these reconnnendations. in 1902 Mr. A. A. Wrigg, City j-jiginrcr. wasinstructed by the City Council to icport on tin- the City. He advised that the nuMhod, tln-n discharging sewage from the many outlets into theharbour could be rnidcrcd ipiitr sanitary by th. ••\t<n-sion of the seweis to low water mark. •J I I. ACCKLAMJ MIMCIIAL ilAMiliOOK The iiiattci- was aK-nii cunsidiM-cil l).y the Cily ((nimilill l!»0:i, the Aiu-kland Harlxmi- lioard lia\in^ llimdecided that the dis(•hal?,^?<? (if cnide .sewajic iiitu tl,.harboiii- must be disconlininMl. In this year Mr. II. LMestayer, M. Inst. Civ, of \\ellin-toii, visited Aiicklandand enciuivcd into the diainajie of the City. He after-wards reported to the City (ouneil and Iecomtnendedthat the City be re-sewered on the separate system,and that a main intcieeptin^ sewer be const met imI, withse])tic tanks and outlet at Coxs Creek. After having considered Mr. Mestayers report theCity Council, under the Mayoralty of the Hon. , refencd the whole (|iiestion to .Mr. ( Taylor, M. Inst. , of T^ondon. In Taylor submitted his reiiort, in which lu- recom-mended the utilization of tlie existing sewers as faras practicable and the const nict ion of a mai
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