HAURAKI DRAINAGE BOARD.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4325, 3 October 1921, Page 1

HAURAKI DRAINAGE BOARD.

FOREMAN’S REPORT. At the meeting of the Hauraki Drainage Board meeting on Thursday •Mi* J. McConnell, the Board's fibreman, presented the following report. GENERAL. During the past month the gates were attended to as usual. The following drains have had the weeds and slips removed : the Willow outlet, Huirau Road-side drain from Thames Valley outlet to the main road, and about twenty chains of the roadside from the willows to Dean’s. The filling in of the old creek at Daily’s has also been, completed. This creek has been the cause of many slips in the outlet in the past. Mr Dally has erected a substantial stopbank to connect with this piece of filling, and has also extended it to the. wing of the fipod-gate.' TE KAURI AREA. Mr Baker and I measured up the job completed by J. Doyle. The work is very' satisfactory, and Doyle has been paid up. The ferry roadside from the floodgate to the main, road, and , also Henry and Troughton’s drain from the flood-gate to Henry’s shed have had the .weeds pul lied out and the slips removed. In these drains several dead calves which had been skinned, were taken, out. The slips have also been removed out of. the No. 2 Te Kauri drain.

The Gumtown roadside, a portion of the Te Kauri No. 2, along Newman’s, and also Bennett’s and Scott’s drains have been fenced. The Te Kauri No. 1 drain was cleaned out from the Gumtown Road to N. G. Davidson’s.

I have at present three men fencing the upper portion of Te Kauri No. 2 drain.

Gugich and party completed their contract last week, ty is .a first-rate job. Mr E. Taylor was over the job on last Saturday and was well pleased with it, MONGONUI AREA.

P.. Vlahovich has finished the contract of deepening the Mongonui No. 1 drain from the roadside to Chick’s section, a total distance of 115% chains. Rhpla Singh has finished the digging qf 22% chains of pew drain, commencing at Chick’s and finishing at Pearse’s centre boundary. Mr Heappey and’ I measured up these jobs last week.

The boat, has been patched and the inside and the outside painted and the bottom tarred. The chairman complimented Mr McConnell on the manner in which he had got through his work during the last period.