SHORTAGE OF WATER
POSITION AT PUNIHO. \ SETTLERS’ WATER-RACE SCHEME The dry season experienced having caused a stream which has never failed before to. dry up, causing inconvenience not only to the farmers but also to the Brooklands factory, settlers of Upper Puniho Road at a meeting recently decided to go in for a comprehensive water supply scheme by means of a race from the Stony River. Mr. Geo. Goodwin, chairman of the Brooklands Co-op. Dairy Company, waited on the Taranaki County Council yesterday on behalf of seven ratepayers, who petitioned the council to construct and maintain a water-race from the Stony River to the small stream on Mr. Frank Gill’s property, running through the front of their sections and past the Brooklands Dairy Company’s factory. They asked the council to raise money on their behalf by means of a special loan, providing that the council’s consulting engineers considered the undertaking practical and the risk of serious erosion not too great, and that the scheme gave satisfactory results at reasonable cost to the petitioners.
Mr. Goodwin said the settlers could form themselves into an irrigation board, but that would mean setting up another board, which they considered unnecessary.
The reguest was referred to the Okato riding councillors to investigate and report.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1935, Page 12
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