“WORST OFFENDER ”
LANDS DEPARTMENT BLAMED
STOCK DAMAGING DRAINS
“ The Government is the worst offender,” contended Mr D. G. McMillan at the monthly meeting of the Hauraki United Drainage Board when reporting on the damage done to the racecourse drain at Kerepeehi. He stated that the fences on the Crown Land through which the drain ran were in “shocking order,”' and the stock were in and out of the drains all the time, damaging them badly. Mr McMillan pointed out that the board was not getting any rates from the Government and yet their stock was causing the most trouble.
The clerk, Mr J. E. Green, was instructed to write to the Lands Department at Kerepeehi protesting at the damage being done and to ask that the fence be put in order. If this is not done the board will carry out the work and charge same to the department.
Mr McMillan stated that he was prepared to meet a representative of the Lands Department at the drain to come to an equitable arrangement.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3111, 27 April 1942, Page 3
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