LOWER CLUTHA RIVER TRUST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25952, 19 September 1945, Page 8

LOWER CLUTHA RIVER TRUST

RATES CONFIRMED Apart from the usual reports, practically the only business transacted at the monthly meeting of the Lower Clutha River Trust, was the confirmation of the rates to be struck for 1945-46. These will be the same as the rates for lasi year. Present at the meeting were —Messrs J. G. Weir (chairman), P. Dippie. I. Jenkins, and S. Willocks.

The secretary (Mr H. H. Lyall) presented the following financial statement for the period ended September 11: Receipts: Oilice administration £1 18s 9d. rent £3O, balance £825 13s 9d. Expenditure: Balance £856 Is 2d. interest £7O 6s Id. river protection £75 18s 4d, drainage £lB 15s 3d, administration £25 6s, flood damage £29 18s 6d, ear expenses £3 18s sd, weed cutter £9 4s. excavator £43 6s lOd. petrol £35 4s Id, travelling expenses £2 7s 4d, railways deposit £2O. wages £167 11s 6d.—The report was received.

The work of piling at Townley’s belt had been completed, and it was hoped that the remaining work would be finished during the week, stated the engineer (Mr A. J. McD. Miller) in his monthly report. The auxiliary drain at Inch Clutha had been cleaned. A start had been made with the spreading of excavated materials at Willocks’s property and on cleaning out the culvert under the main highway. A proposal had been submitted to the Public Works Department for a subsidy on the work of removing debris from the Waitepeka Creek from the Puerua to Mr Marshall's boundary, and it was hoped that arrangements would be completed to enable the work to be commenced in October. A start had already been made on raising and strengthening the slumped portion of the Waitepeka flood bank. It was proposed to construct drains across the swamp below the embankment for the purpose of drying out the country along the toe of the bank. Continuing, Mr Miller reported the completion of the work of placing stone and manuka mattresses below the outfall at the Kaitangata locks. " Trimming up ’ the ground at the break at Willocks’s lagoon, Inch Clut.ha, had been finished, while at Donaldson's a bank had been constructed across the lagoon in Mr Hastings’s property and a drain dug to drv out the country. Repairs had been effected to a flood bank on Mrs H. Anderson’s property which had collapsed. The report was received.