HAURAKI DRAINAGE
DAMAGE THROUGH FLOODS DECISIONS OF THE BOARD [BV TKT.KGR-VPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT! THAMES, Monday Damage in the Hauraki United Drainage Board's area as a result of the recent bad weather and high tides was reviewed at a meeting of the board over the week-end. The foreman, Mr. W. A. Herkt, reported that many farms were flooded and the bad state of the stopbank below Ngatea along the Piako Itivcr would cause serious flooding if repairs were not soon undertaken. For this work it was necessary that the board should receive outside assistance. The chairman, Mr. H. H. Hicks, was authorised to interview the Commissioner of Unemployment in Wellington next month in reference to obtaining financial assistance by way of a grant oi subsidy on extraordinary expenditure incurred through flood damage and to obtain relief in the form of labour. The board decided to notifv the Public Works Department at Paeroan that the raising ot the stopbank around Huirau Point was insufficient to keep out the high tides which had recently been experienced, and that water was coming over in several places.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 11
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