NETHERTON DRAINAGE BOARD

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 18

NETHERTON DRAINAGE BOARD

At tluT second meeting of Drainage Board- Mr.- Gk-Buclianan presided. Mr. "S. E.-'erreeny J acting-clerk/ was appointed at; : a lealary .of .£100; per; Concefhing';"avpropostil-tp.r,'make; a drain from near the,Awaitt canal, Sir. Green > reported: that. Mr. E. Taylor, 3.ands drainage; engineer.; had adviEed that there was n BUnJ.:o£jmoney; available from an"old grant, anoVtbe; suggestion was to makC!a drain which. ™oul<l..Berve as an outlet toJboth the Piako nnd Waihon Rivers, •whichever was not in flood. :oh. the chairr man's suggestion it ivas decided! to invite the Public Worts and Land Drainage en- , gineers'tb meet the board members on the ,spot, ani'go into the matter. A deputation waited on the'board In connection' With the eame area. The. settlers desired rthe. board to investigate the.Department's alternative proposal: . They considered that the drainon the "eastern-side of Awalti Epad should be enlarged to twice its present sire. It ■would take a ; pump''capable .'Of Bhlftingan hour -.eight: day's to removeone inch'of rain'in v the 3 area, and- It was deslrahle to get the stormwater off the land before the Ohlnemurl flood came down. The chairman explainedi to the deputation that the; board proposed to inspect'the area in company with the two Government engineers'. : ■ ■■';■•• .■'••:'• -'■'-' ".'.

The board agreed to the area being divided into three ridings, and , the clerk was" lnstrncted'to apply to the Minister of Internal Affairs for permission to raise an.overdraft on the security of a rate of ljd In the £ In' each offthe three ridings.■:• '•