“Gazette" District News

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4402, 12 April 1922, Page 4

“Gazette" District News

PATETONGA. MANGAWHERO AQUEDUCT. The aqueduct at the MangawherJ Road has been completed during the last few weeks. It is built of rein forced ’concrete, and is 1114 ft n length. It is an open aqueduct, five fept deep and five feet wide, strength ened ever the top with semi-eilliptica 1 ribs. * A stream which runs along th it road was causing a great deal ol erosion. The aqueduct was built tc carry this water. It is built op thi opposite side of the road to the stream and crosses the road at twe points by concrete culverts. The seeond crossing is at an angle of 30 d© grees-. and it flows into the old chan nel, at which point there is no risr of erosion. To prevent the water running at ? high velocity, the aqueduct is buW .in steps. There is just sufficient fal to -carry all the water away at tlw slowest possible pace. The spoil taken from the excavation necessary to build the aqueducl will be used to fill up the old channel of the stream. The work has been a lengthy one and has taken about 10 or 12 months to complete. KOMATA BEEFS. I — EUCHRE AND DANCE. 1 A very well- attended dance and euchre tournament was held in the Komata Hall on Saturday evening The euchre was keenly contested', and resulted in Miss I. Simpson winning the ladies’ prize and Mr J- Bennej ■the gentleman’s.- Dancing was continued till midnight, and the floor was pleasantly crowded, several people coming from outside the Komata Valley. NGATEA. THE PIG NUISANCE. ‘ 4t the County Council meeting on Monday Cr. Hayward reported that he had been told that the boarders in the Ngatea boardinghouse had to shut their windows owing to the smell from' a. neighbouring pigsty., He thought that if a complaint was lodged the health inspector should deal with the objection. He understood that if the pigs came on to the road the peundkeeper could deal with them, but if they did not the county Could not interfere. Cr: Death moved that, the health inspector’s attention should be drawn to the pig nuisance existing at Ngatea. Cr. Chatfield seconded, and the motion was carried,