The Mangaone

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 31 August 1886, Page 2

The Mangaone

A public meeting was held on Saturday afternoon at Carroll's Clarendon Hotel for the* purpose of considering the advisability of fuming a .River Board iv connection with the Maugaone stream. There were ahontfwenty settlers present, and Mr D. Buick was voted to the chair.

The chairman in opening the proceedings said that probably the meeting knew that the object was ta consider the question of drainage. He had carefully gone into the question.. and found that to be successful they must act unitedly and not take individual action, as had been done in the past. They found undoubtedly, that the Mangaone was the river which they must depend upon to drain their land and it was the source of their trouble. For his own part he considered that the best method of dealing with tho question was to form a River Board* which could carry out the work in a proper manner, but of course that was a matter that could be decided by the meeting.

Mr Luxford moved, 'That in the opinion of this meeting it is adrisable that the district influenced by the Mangaone River be declared a River Board under the Rivera Act, 1894, and that a Committee be appointed te> define the limits of said district and forward petition, etc, in accordance with the Act. :

Mr James Bell seconded the resolution and it was carried.

After some further discussion of a conversational nature, the meeting proceeded to the election of a committee, with the result that the following 1 gentlemen were unanimously, elected : — Messrs Bulck, Carroll, Luxford, Bell, Prendergast, D. L. Smith, McDowell, Sly, D. Walker, J. Russell, S. Perkins," J.Rowe, andS. E. Clausen.

It was decided that the committee meet at 11 a.m. on Thursday next at the Road Board office.—- Manawatu Times.