SWAMP DRAINAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 939, 5 October 1910, Page 4

SWAMP DRAINAGE.

'.The;:advice of'.-.the-;Auckland;'/Crows;' : -Ltjrids* ■'Boardito'/'occupiers'.ofi.theJrHikur.: rangi Swamp to present "a; petitibniasMng/.; the, Government; to declare..the/swamp'an,, : area under. the/Land : Draiha'ge;;Actj; 1908,'./ :has; .been -{accepted,;'aimTa; petition'- with.,, ;this-^bject''in-;.viewiis f nbw/being;-biTCnlate3!H ,fbr.slgnaturei'' ; ;"The.-betitm:'sefe;.ont;'ihaii : ; the swamp' and; floods■ '/which- occur: aref-, ,largely:due'to the-pobr"flow/of;the. Waw/ rua Eivei-, .and': that-if .'proper; steps Wera,/ taken to /improve /the, flow.' of /the /river, ?' and other necessary: drainage". works/ wera undertaken, - the; value. : of- about:: 30,000 acres of both Crown.and Native.,; lahdaf; would' be greatly' enhahced-'atCcbrnpari, . tively/, small; .cost, :; : 'viz., : vi £XO,o.oo.; / ;, ; . Thel: petitioners,, in - urging / /. that.. a-';' dfainaga • area;be constituted-in order that theiworb ' may be'-undertaken.'/state/.that they/'hava'; no: means, of' ascertaining :;whatVlands:;/ should;"properly be-included-in-suendis"/ , triot,' and'ask'th'a.t d survey.;be;:made-,an'6l'. a report/prepared by"theiGoverhittent offl-v; cars on, what should be thebouhdaxiesotj.; ■the' : 'Careal^j''--;The;--.-^iktttangi'- : ' r >S*amp'':;ij|-; ,situated:within ten;iiiilcss'of Whangarek.-;;