LAND DEVELOPMENT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21935, 19 October 1934, Page 16

LAND DEVELOPMENT

RECLAIMING TAUPIRI SWAMP PROGRESS OP THE WORK ./ [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Thursday Good progress has been made in recent months with the Taupiri swamp drainage scheme. The dredging contract for the first four miles of the Mangawarft River is almost completed and the contractors working on the nest two miles of the river have iinished about half of their undertaking. For six miles ilpstream, to Proctor's Road, the top lift, which is the earthwork above the water-level, has been practically completed by hand labour. The work on the Mangatea stream, two miles 16 chains in length, and Sludge preek, one mile 70 chains, has been completed, whild the. top lift has been taken out over two miles and a-half of the Mangawara outlet. Good progress has also been made in the Tauhei stream, the first mile arid a-half, with a bottom width of 28ft., having been completed, and the top lift taken from a further two miles and a-half. Drag-line work has also been completed on the Komakorau section. At the present stage about a-third of the work has been .completed, and it is anticipated that even better progress will be made during the summer, when the swamp will be drier.