MAKERUA DRAINAGE BOADD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6536, 18 February 1928, Page 11

MAKERUA DRAINAGE BOADD

' MONTHLY MEETING. ;•;■■■•,. : \ Tho regular monthly meeting of tlio - Makerua Drainage Board was hold yesterday, . there being present Trustees J. Biggins, (in the chair), R. B. Tippler, A. Seifert. J. H'. P. Biggins,: ■H. Akers, and H. J. T. Hume. 'An apology was received from Trustee Gibbona who was granted leave of sence from the jnecting., j ... . . Engineers -Repprt, The engineer’s report as follows was adopted: . .... ... Since the last meeting of the Board all outstanding work-has been completed. ■ • ..■.■.-•T./ ; .r ' . I have completed the putting on of the new ■ top. dii- Dalzlel’s vegetation drain. The hole in the Wall's property has been competed and finished up. " '■ '■ r ! | I have had to open some of the pipes running through the 'bank "at j Whltanui as the water was running I back along the pipes. This Will be j finished' about Saturday." This is the ilast job there is to complete.';''' ‘ ; 100 chains of Aker’s'Drain Con- ■ tract has been let to" W. Huriia at'£3 jSs per chain. , The contractors arc making good progress, with this job: j I have made a, very'parefur inspection of all the Board's drains arid I find that the- most of., them really ■want- cleaning ..out..'.. .There -are .only three that really could be; out out— Smith’s, Young’s,' and- -.Cooker’s—:, .a’ total of 1-37 chains.. As ,tho expenditure on-these drains ,1s gradually, in--creasing, I;- would;, suggest that , .the Board would allow men to do, all; this year’s drain -cleaning by day.,.labour. The; cost- wouldv.-.ber.i'a good degl- less 1 than contract:-work. -If possible, now would-be a good’ time -to .get.-.the-cleaning put, in hand, as: the drhjna are: dry and ho gfOWtha They-.cbuld "Ko done a good ideal c'Hoaper : now- than; later on. ' 1 y -•' • ■"• i A : ; ’ T have renewed the' -flood-gate ;6h the boundary of .Bigjins and iDalzicll, which is how''alright. " - ’’■!■• ■' f ,Ctoiresi>oiii<iejiciiß.’ '■ i'f ■ ; : The following correspondence : was dealt with: Prom the Public,- tWo.rks Department, Shannon, detailing pharg; es, for' work done for. tho , Board by the dredge .filling in :lbe . hole megr Okuku Road bridge—receivedFrom, the Public: Works Department re-dredging charges by the .Board’s dredge.—Resolved that as a low rental was charged, , the Board cannot see its way clear to make a reduction. ; ' From Whitaunui Btdi; re drain for Poplar boundarythrougfh". to lagoon, pointing out that the drain needed deepening, widening and fur-; ther extending into the lagoon'; also .calling attention to, the. floodgate.;, .'. jtp Trustee Seifert^ahd'thd'pyer- ; seer with power to act. General. It was resolved that during the cur r rent year,- the Board’s . drain’s; be.j cleaned out by employing day labour, j The chairman's action In letting j the contract to clean out Akerte d ra i n | was endorsed. -~'-V ■ Trustee Seifert was biripoword s to take stops re making the- floating dredge safe. 3(1 ; v"V : "‘. Outstanding rates were'left:to,..the clerk to collect ,with power to take legal stops if necessary, •