TE AROHA DISTRICT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 5

TE AROHA DISTRICT.

DRAINAGE BOARD WORK. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWS CO BHESPON DENT.]

TJE ABOHA. Monday. At the Hungaliunga- Drainage Board meeting on' Saturday afternoon, intimation was received from the board's solicitor that the merger between the board and the Waihekaa Drainage Board' is new 1 completed. It we is formally decided to inquest the clerk to the latter body to pay io the credit of the Hungahunga. board any moneys held: on behalf of the Waihekau board. It was decided to ask the engineer to submit a list of drains tbfct require straightening, or slips removing, so that this work can t\o attended to at once, instead of leaving it until the autumn. Practically all the members expressed a desire to accept an invitation to members of all drainage boards to inspect the Haurs&i Plains' fiver: improvement works being carriad out by the Lands Department. "Die trip will probably be mada early in November. It was decided to have a further 120 chains of the Waahekau drain, southward of Urn Wardville road", cleaned out. T"h<a board's classifier, Mr. W. R. Johnson,, is to he asked to "proceed as soon as possible* with the classification of the whole ci the Hungahunga * drainage district. Tile several, subdivisions have been, defined, and approved. " ; v . The Te Aroha District Higis Jlchcol Committee on Saturday evening approved the appointment of Mr. A. 0. Fercy, of the Kaipara district, as an aiieistipt: master in succession to Mi*. J". Edgar. v;ho has been transferrerd bo the Thames Centra). School. II was decided to aisle the board to instal six water bubble-foun-tains lit the school, as a precautioniiry safeguard against diphtheria^