».O.€ T. W. KEELE. 
12 million gallons daily to Crown Street 141 feet above sea 
levei, of which 1 million would be pumped to Paddington, 
and 4 million to Waverley, at an estimated cost of £1,562,268. 
He claimed high delivery to Waverley, Woollahra, and 
Paddington, with its attendant advantages of smaller mains 
and reticulating pipes, and fewer distributing reservoirs at 
North Shore and elsewhere in the suburbs, against low 
delivery to Crown Street, necessitating pumping stations 
at different smaller reservoirs, to reach the high levels of 
the city and suburbs, and also the use of large mains and 
reticulating pipes. A principal feature of his scheme was 
the great advantage to be derived for extinguishing fires; 
for the manufacturer and mechanic; for public fountains 
and hydraulic lifts and motors; and for flushing sewers. 
On 11th January 1881, Mr. Moriarty’s report was sub- 
mitted to Parliament. He dealt trenchantly with the 
subject, showing that the upper reservoir on which Mr. 
Gipps relied to supply Waverley, Woollahra, Paddington, 
and St. Leonards, was not at sufficient elevation, and was 
too small, even if raised an additional ten feet—as was 
subsequently suggested by Mr. Gipps—to maintain the 
supply in dry seasons when it would be required most. He 
showed that the project would cost about £1,300,000 more 
than that of Prospect, and whenever it became necessary 
to expand the works to meet an increasing demand, the 
difference in cost between the Kenny Hill and Prospect 
schemes would increase in still greater ratio. 
The leading peculiarity of the project was, that in a wet 
Season at which time but little water would be required, 
the canal supplying the upper reservoir at Kenny Hill 
would be running full; but in a hot dry season when the 
canal would have ceased to run, or nearly so, a recourse 
would have to be made on the lower or storage reservoir, and 
the supply would then fall to about the quantity Sydney 
