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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4795, 5 January 1925, Page 2

It may not be generally known that a recent amendment of the Lands Drainage Act makes the provisions of the Fencing Act in regard tc the repair or. dividing fences apply to the cleansing, maintenance, and repair of private drains between adjoining holdings. Section 20 of the Lands Drainage Amendment Act, 1922, provides that section 6 of the 1920 Act is amended by the addition of the following sub-section : “Where any drain (not being a drain constructed, maintained. or controlled by ‘ a drainage board) is constructed between adjoining lands (whether such drain is throughout its course* on (he land of one adjoining owner or is partly on the land of one such owner and partly on the land of any other such owner or owners) such drain, together with any embankment adjacent thereto, shall for the purposes of the Fencing Act, 1908, be deemed to be a fence, and the provisions of sections 31 to 35 of the Fencing Act, 1908 (relative to the repair of fences), shall apply thereto accordingly, as if the cleansing, maintenance, and repair of such drain, or the maintenance and repair of such embankment, were the repair of a fence.”