AORANGI LAND DRAINAGE BOARD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1015, 17 November 1917, Page 6

AORANGI LAND DRAINAGE BOARD.

\ meeting of the Aorangi Land. Drainage .• Board was field to-day. Present : Trusiees ;\ioKeraie, Eliott, Colli-:, and Golden, j Amounts amounting to £445 10.-4 Id were i passed for mvment. Mr Wright, the -Board's engineer, prcscntlod his "report, and a, resolution was carried in recognition of the valuable services he had rendered. ' It is intended in future- that, the work of cleaning our the drains be take.) m ' hand earlier in tho year, to avoid the I tlcod.t. ' Trustee llcmv, who is in camp, was granted k. further six month-' leave of, U '' ENGINEER'S REPORT. ! Joint outlet.- -The contract price paid for cleaning out this drain was 7s per I chain, the length being 50 chains. Since [the completion of the contract, several slips ! have been cleared by day work. , , i Bourke's drain.—'J he cleaning out ol this i drain was lot in thi'eo contract-, tho lengths land nrices being as follows:—92 chains Jit I7s nor chain, 38 chains at. 5 S 6,1 per chain, laud 248 chains at 5s 9d per chain. Ihe two former contracts have been completed, | but owing to continual Hood--, and high I level of water in the drain, it was found impossible to complete, the laitor, and tho . mi motors were, tlii'iefore, paid for work thev had'Himpleted, and contract, cancelled. '! he banks of the lower portion of this drain, i-.,- a distance of about. 55 chains from june--;.u with joint outlet, slipped rather badly during floods, and it was necessary on several occasions to employ daymen to ~ i.-move slips from chain. 1 should rocom : -. men,.!, that next, season this portion of dram ,- be widened and bank,, of drain either i stepped or finish.etl with vo/y easy batter; li Oarmody's drain.-The cleaning of this 'di'ii'i u;i i let. in two contracts, the, lower , portion ;iO4 chain-) at 5s L'ld per chain, I and the upper portion (160 chain-.) ai 6s per ■ chain. With the exception ol tho last ten ' | (!:ai:i-i, whore depth of w,-hit would no! •allow of cleaning bottom of drain, the Int.!ter .cdntraei. was satisfactorily . completed, 1 laud contractor paid, less unlinishod work. , i The lower portion of this drain was flooded '. j immediately after letting of contract, and (water has not since been low enough to .'allow ol cleaning bottom or properly, trim- . : ming --ides of drain, though vegetation has .been cut and removed. This contract, is still in hand. ; No. 1 drain. -The whole of this drain, 270 .I clraires, was le). to one contratctor, the L prico being 5s 5<J per chain, and the con- ' tract was satisfactorily compk-ted. Some slii>S have since had to be removed by day labour. 1 slionld recommend that a portion of this drain abo-. e, tho junction with road, be. widenetl, and banks stepped or finished > with case batter. i General.—The total length of drain elcar- ; ing contracts let during the. season was ,j 1012 chains-nearly 13 miles—though, a- ' j mentioned above, all were not completed. | Should funds not be otherwise available, | f think it. would be advisable to omit the ' cfeaning of upper ends of Carmody's and • i No. 1 Drain, in order to carry out widening, •jctc, suggested in Cornice's and No. 1 i drains, as slip,; in the former drain arc ! liable to affect your whole drainage-system. New specifications for drain (leaning conj tracts were drawn up and prime,!.