LOCAL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume LX, Issue 16855, 4 August 1926, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS.

The Thames Jockey Club will next race at Parawai on October 30th and November Ist. The Thames Schools’ Committee -meets this evening.

To-day is the twelfth anniversary of the date on which Britain declared war on Germany. It is understood that the proposed alteration to the Pollen Street sewer between Richmond and Sealey Streets has been abandoned, chiefly on the score of the additional expense. The arrangement for the new lay-out beSealey Street and the Karaka is to be gone on with, however. The indications are for variable and strong breezes, but northerly winds, moderate to strong, prevailing and freshening. Expect changeable and showery weather, rain probable. The barometer has a falling tendency. Seas rough, tides good swell. Barometer 29.90, thermometer 63. The Memorial will be lit up by searchlight to-night (weather permitting), from the King’s Theatre, about 7.30. A statement was erroneously; attributed to the Town Clerk in the report of the Borough Council meeting yester. day. He is stated to have said that no mention of Tararu was made in any report concerning sewerage. What ho did say was that Tararu was mentioned in certain reports. The Women’s National Reserve .will hold their monthly meeting on Friday next, at the Parish Hall. Intense interest is being manifested throughout the Hauraki Plains just now in a project calculated to solve for all time the vexed question of efficient drainage. An experiment at Puhanga recently is said to have more than demonstrated the success of the new idea which is to drain the land by electrically - driven centrifugal pumps. The experiment at Puhanga was conducted by Mr. L. Marchaut, whose farm is subject to frequent flooding. Some months ago, when a flood appeared imminent, Mr. Marchaut bought a pumping plant from Auckland, but the waters had subsided before it could be installed. More recently, when nearly half of a 1000-acre block became inundated, the pump was set to work, and in two days the water in all drains on the block had been reduced to midsummer level. It is estimated that the pump moved the water off the block at the rate of 2500 gallons per minute. The Thames Valley Power Board is interested in the new scheme, as also are district Drainage Boards. Further details will be published later in the week.