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gallons a day altogether out of 18 millions provided for, and 

 that although the Waverley and Woollahra reservoirs were 

 already reckoned with. The author's diagram shows that 

 over 60°/° of the supply is now pumped above Crown Street, 

 and that for over twenty years nearly 50f° of the total 

 supply has had to be so raised. Thus the contentions of 

 the advocates of a high level scheme thirty years ago, of 

 which the late James Manning was such a conspicuous 

 advocate, have been fully borne out. Let us hope many 

 here will yet live to see a direct gravitation supply from 

 the Cataract or similar high gathering ground to the higher 

 levels of Sydney. 



In concluding, Mr. Selfe said that if the members were 

 not tired, he would direct attention to another illustration 

 of the marvellous development which had taken place in 

 the city's requirements. From an old table found among 

 his papers showing the yards of pipes laid and taken up in 

 twenty-one years, it appears that in the year 1857 nothing 

 larger than a G inch main was laid, the other sizes being 

 3 and J inches; up to 1878 the largest main was 30 inches. 



The whole history of the water supply of Sydney shows 

 that we cannot look too far ahead, and this is a great 

 question for the future. Is it to be gravitation for the high 

 levels or an entirely new pumping station? If the latter 

 is adopted, then it should be of the most approved and 

 economic type and carried out in such a way as to be a 

 credit to the city. Let us hope it will not be designed to 

 suit the standards of any one particular maker but that it 

 will embody the best features of them all. If we can make 

 our locomotives and marine engines, surely we can make 

 our pumping engines, also it must be a matter of gratifica- 

 tion to all connected with our Society that locally made 

 centrifugal pumps appear to have eclipsed in efficiency any 

 yet tested here of foreign or British manufacture. Such 



