AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL HANDBOOK
This report was afterwards considered at several conferences of the authorities interested in the proposals contained therein. Mr. Bush was eventually instructed to prepare a scheme for the main drainage of Auckland and suburbs, the Auckland Harbour Board being at the same time requested to allow of the discharge of sewage at Okahu Point.
Subsequently Mr. G. Midgley Taylor was, by mutual agreement between the City Council and the Harbour Board, commissioned to proceed to Auckland and submit a further report. He visited Auckland in 1908 for this purpose, and his report on that occasion contained the following important recommendations, which became embodied in the scheme ultimately decided upon and authorised by Act of Parliament:—
(a) Adoption of a joint scheme for Auckland City and suburbs
(b) Drainage on the combined system.
(c) Direct discharge of the sewage, after screening, into the sea at Okahu Point.
(d) Adoption of the line of the main intercepting sewer recommended by the Board's Engineer, Mr. W. E. Bush.
At this juncture it was fully recognized that the scheme, if adopted, should be proceeded with under the control of a single authority. Proposals were therefore projected, and considered at some length, for the incorporation of a Greater Auckland Municipality to comprise at least those authorities concerned in the
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