DRAINING HAURAKI.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 43, 20 February 1929, Page 12

DRAINING HAURAKI.

ELECTRIC PUMPS PROPOSED. EATING ON LOANS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) TURUA, this day. A suggestion has been made by Mr. E. Taylor, engineer of the Lands Department, concerning methods of draining the low-lying lands on the eastern banks of the Piako River, near Ngatea. Mr. Taylor suggested to the Hauraki United Drainage Board that electrical pumping to supplement gravity drainage at high stages of the river was the best means of improving the drainage. Pumping, however, could not be carried out on an economically sound basis unless the drainage from the higher land above the terrace was excluded from the pumping area. . The board decided to take up the proposal with settler?. Mr. K. H. Heappey moved according to notice, "That in future all rated in connection with the old Hauraki Board's loans be levied in accordance with the terms and conditions under which these loans were raised, and by the terms and conditions li|d down by the Minister when amalgamation was granted; that the classification of the whole united district be reviewed and amended, so as to remove the present cases of hardship and unfairness." The board resolved to call a specia' meeting to discos these points.