AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK
The whole of the water is gravitated from Nihotupu and Waitakere into service reservoirs at Khyber Pass, Arch Hill and Ponsonby. The water for the higher levels is raised by means of electric motors from Khyber Pass to Mount Eden Reservoir, and from there part of the supply is gravitated to Mount Hobson Reservoir, which serves Remuera and Tamaki West districts.
The increase of the persons supplied with water has been fairly regular during the past twenty years, as shown hereunder:—
| Date. | Population supplied with water. |
Increase. | |
| 1900 | 52,000 | ||
| 1905 | 62,000 | 10,000 | |
| 1910 | 75,000 | 13,000 | |
| 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 of the City proper during the last twenty years, Arch Hill and Parnell, with a united population of 7,969, amalgamated with the City, in 1913; Grey Lynn, with 8,000, in 1914; Eden Terrace and Remuera, with 7,877, in 1915; and Epsom, with 3,000, in 1917, being a total addition of 26,848. All the districts named, with the exception of Epsom, were supplied with water from the City mains at the time of amalgamation.
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