TAIERI RIVER TRUST.

Otago Witness, Issue 3673, 5 August 1924, Page 49

TAIERI RIVER TRUST.

tl The lo clearfng U of’ and Patrick’s nump drain has been completed. The rapu an“«ess have been cleared from the lower of the Contour Channel, the leak in the 'embankment at Miller’s attended to and the outlet box across the Lee Canal road made good The works m progress include the clearing of Wylie’s Creek dram and thcutting of tlie new drain along Mi Urns r °The raising of the river embankment at otoliia has been proceeded with during the month, but work was delayed by the wet weather and tlie contract is not completed. The en°‘inf‘ers appointed to make a recoinmendation regarding the Waipori Dam agreemert have further conferred since last meetinn- and their final recommendations are embodied in a letter forwarded by the town, clerk, Dunedin. Tn accordance with -mslructons 1 submit a. list of the drains which are regarded by the writer os public drains: (1) Poplar road drain, (2) Wain’s drain, (3) A drain, (4) Lake drain, (5) B drain, (6) C drain, (7) Kirk a dram, (8) Maungaiua drain, (S) drain from pump to Lee Creek, (10) Robertson s drain, (11) Scott and Shennan’s drain, (12) Duck Creek and Wvlie’s Creek, (13) Otokia dram, (14) Momona drain, (15) Loch Katrine dram, (16) MTlattie’s drain, (17) Spence’s dram and continuation, (18) Smail s drain, (19) Thomson’s Lagoon drain, (20) Patrick’s pump drains (21) Lee Creek, (22) Otokia-Maungatna. load drain, (23) Wylie’s Creek diversion, (24) Contour Channel, (25) channel between two lakes, (26) water supply drain from Leo Creek, (27) Campbell and Probcrt’s drain, (28) Docherty’s drain, (29) drain from Lee Creek to Contour Channel in J MLeod's, (30) M'NeiU’s to' Bathgate's drain, (31) Fat. M'Donald's to Granton and Bathgate’s drain, (32) Miller's road drain. The total length of these drains is about 6S miles.