DRAINING SWAMP AREA.
IWAIKARE DISTRICT SCHEME
DONATIONS FOR COST OF TOOLS. Steps to secure the drainage of the Waikare area, Lower Waikato, were taken at a meeting of owners of land in the area, held in Auckland yesterday. The landowners present donated £lO each toward the cost of tools, and housing of men to he employed on the work by the Waikato County Council under the unemployment contract scheme. Further donations are expected, and when sufficient, funds have been received the money will be handed to the council. It is proposed to cut a canal from the Black Lake into Lake Waikare, as well as two drains from the Black Lake through the intervening swamps between this lake and the Oliiriewai and Domain Lakes.
This work is intended as a preliminary to a comprehensive scheme to mnvater about 10,000 acres of land in this district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21122, 3 March 1932, Page 6
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