RIVER WORKS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4668, 29 February 1924, Page 1

RIVER WORKS.

PROGRESS WITH DREDGES. Considerable progress has been made by the Public Works Department's various dredges since the commencement of the year. At the pre ■ sent time a .kind of “move on” policy is active among them. The Rushton drag-line dredge, which has l been engaged stop-banking on the left bank of the Ohinemuri River, has now joined up with the relief works near Moananui’s Flat, and is at the present ■time being moved from that site to a location on Kaouiti Creek, where it will work down-stream and complete a further two miles of stop-banking, finishing in the vicinity of the old ex-i traction works. The moving of this dredge across-country is a difficult undertaking in view of the electric light wires, telephone and railway wires, not to mention numerous fences that have to be removed to allow the dredge to pass. To move it from its present position to Kaouiti Creek necessitates crossing the Waihi and Paeroa-Te Aroha railway lines. These crossings .will be made cn Sunday next, when the lines will be clear of all traffic and ample time will bo available to allow of the packing of the line to be done so that the dredge can pass over without damage resulting.

The suction dredge, which has been working for some time near the Puke, was this week taken up above Tirohia. and has commenced stop-banking the left bank of the Waihou River, working down-stream. The large Bucyrus drag-line dredge, which has been working below N'etherton, near Morrison’s, is shortly to be moved to the railway and main outfall Grains, near Waimarie Bend, where operations will commence at an early date.