WAITOA DRAINAGE BOARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 172, 23 July 1928, Page 19

WAITOA DRAINAGE BOARD.

j Tiie monthly meeiinj m tWaitoa i Drainage Board was held at Te Aroiia ion Saturday. Rrtsont: Mentis. i i-h.iirmanl. -T. D. Maekay. E. I'aiiiser. •J. -luhrif. and 11. L. Wilton. The Minister of Lands acknowledged tiic )>oard'«i application iu:, a subsidy o: £1 lur X'l towards the estimated cost o: imp:nvin-- the drains in the central .special ruling area of the hoard's dis'll ret. A i was 1 »oiiiluadc.' The i board agreed to wait, receipt of report. I Mr. S. Jb-ld. M.P.. stated that representations had been made for a subsidy 'or a drain hi the cent! a! yea c-cheme Received. Mr. A. Foster I Spring.lale * reported j that, two bridges had failea ami several slijis had occurred in the board's area. The chairman is to report. Mr. M. 11. Xortheott advised that Woodley'ts outlet tieeded clearing.— Agreed that engineer report- on same. The secretary of the Fairfield Drain- ' ace Board, writing :n regard to the basis of rating said hLs board understood that the only safe course now was ii>r the boards, after classification, to have a plan made by the classifier, showing i where tne Ciass:tied areas are situated on j plans and classifications lent to the j Valuation Department, and tor them 1 to allot values. His board wished to know the ideas of the Waitoa Board.— The board was of the opinion that it was: a matter ior leual opinion. j INlr. I. Watson asked that the No. 1 ! drain be deepened.—Engineer to report. I lhe ciigmoor. Mr. W. R. -Tohnsoti; I reported on the work for the month:— Polar's drain was not yer complete.- The Toturakura improvement work had been inspected and it was arranged for nine chains to be done, reaching to the road bridge, at a cost of i' 9. Further levels have now been taken tor a nirthcv distance. reaching t'> the lower end of Rushton's woi !<. a distance ef 10.5 chains, and plans are under way. When iinifhcd arrangements will be made to extend the work to that point.—The report was adopted.