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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17812, 11 July 1923, Page 11

A considerable part of the residential' ' ,; ,- area of Palmerston North is handi- ■ " '»• capped by the fact that tho clay pub- ' soil retains the water for long periods < after each fall of rain (states the " ''Manawatu Daily Times"). Of 1 this stratum of clay there are from* - ' -■ tlireo to six feet, and under this is 1 the porous, looso metal, which xijakes ideal drainage. Profiting by +M* knowledge, a local resident has succeeded ' in effectively draining hia lawns and garden in a somewhat novel* J and quite inexpensive manner,' one, in- '• deed, which may be freely adopted by' "' many persons who wish to get rid o£ ' tho surface water. "With a digger" he bored several holes 4}ln in diameter, and four feet deep. These <■' holes were filled with uncrusheA coke' ' and the grass cap replaced. So eflfee-- , tive is this . simple system, that a continuous stream from & half-inch hos< turned into one of the holes failed t>* ■ overflow. *" V *