PLAINS DRAINAGE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4825, 29 April 1925, Page 4

PLAINS DRAINAGE.

HAURAKI BOARD, MONTHLY MEETING. The regular meeting of the Hauraki Drainage Board w'as held at Turua on Friday last, Mr G. Gray presiding over Messrs J. Mules, R. Baker, R. H« Heappey, D. G. McMillan, and the clerk, Mr J. E. Green. WHAREPOA CULVERT PIPES. In reply to the board's letter Mr W. T. Onion, Parawai, wrote stating that he could supply ten 4ft concrete pipes. Mr McMillan reported that four lengths had already been delivered. PIAKO ROAD FLOOD-GATE. It was moved by Mr McMillan, and seconded by Mr Baker, that a new wooden hardwood gate be put in the Piako Road outlet and the grating repaired, provided the Horahia Board was prepared to contribute half tne cost. MILL CREEK MAINTENANCE. Mr Mules reported that he had employed a man to repair a break in the wing-wall of the mill creek outlet. His action was approved. THAMES VALLEY IMPROVEMENT. The tender of V. Lord for laying back about 40 chains of the Thames Valley outlet at 32s 6d a chain was accepted, and the clerk was instructed to notify the owners of the land through which the drain passed. FILTH IN DRAINS. A membr reported that drain cleaners had. found night-soil tins in drains opposite a settler's residence, and that at another place material from a house and a cowshed had been washed into a roadside drain and removed on to the roadside, where it constituted a serious menace to the healtn of schoolchildren who had to pass regularly. The clerk was instructed -to write to the settler concerned, giving him 14 days in which to remove the spoil from the roadside, otherwise the aid of the Health Department would oh evoked. A HIGH CULVERT. A letter was received from Messrs J. A. Stewart and A. Hill drawing attention to the fact, that the pipes across the road at Taylor’s outlet were about a foot higher than the bottom of the drain. To permit of efficient drainage the culvert should be lowered. The request was granted, the matter being left to the area member. HANDLEY’ SOUTI.ET, Mr Heappey was authorised to procure timber ancl have a flood-gate made and installed at Handley’s outlet to replace the exfeting gate, whicn was unsatisfactor. ACCOUNTS. The parsing of accounts, includnig a number of progress payments to contractors, terminated the meeting.