RUINED BY WATER

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 7

RUINED BY WATER

VALUABLE DAIRY LAND. government works responsibl POSITION AT TAHUNA. (Special to Times.) TAHUNA, Saturday. A ponding area has been created by the Government Drainage Dep^' on the north of the now bridge. For the past four or five >ears owing to extensive, draina o e Viork. higher up, water has come down m & volume not. anticipated with the resu that thousands of acres of good dt - inn- land are now inundated. 1 position becomes worse . an FJJ* y b “ n the owners of the land have been pressed back off land which, Pijor o his, was carrying a heavy vc fc l slock, to the higher .oounlr* Repeated representations ha\ made to the Government foiiehef, but the Drainage Department so fai m ™ s n °rte“noS-,v. le n the Minister of Public works 1 (1-lon. E. A. was opening the new bridge at ia hunapthc mailer was brought to his notice. From the bridge had an opportunity of seeing for self part of the flooded area. Mr W R. Lowry, Piako Count* Chairman, urged the Minister to note the conditions and the great loss tl i had accrued to the affected settlers He remarked facetiously that if some Sling was not done in the near future, the bridge would become a mooii^ place for steamers instead of a ppctin°- link for road traffic. Tho° Minister promised to bring the matter before the department responsible for the present condition of things. _