PUMPING DRAIN WATER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5078, 21 January 1927, Page 3

PUMPING DRAIN WATER.

EARLY ACTION DESIRE®. SMALL LOAN NECESSARY. At yesterday’s meeting of the Horahia Drainage Board the chairman (Mr F. A. Kneebone.) brought up the question of utilising electrically driven pumps to assist gravity drainage, and said that it was time to get moving. The machinery would have to be indented from England, and it was essential that the concrete, work should be done when there was comparatively little water in the drains The board had legal advice that it did not have authority to use part of its loan money for pumps, and thus it would probably be advisable to constitute a small .rating atea. Mr J. M. Thompson said that unless a pump was installed on Price’s outlet there was a. big chance bf considerable inundation of farm land in the vicin-! ity during the next floods. The chairman suggested that a meeting of settlers should be called to discuss the matter. Pumps were necessary on the, Louch-McDuff drain and on Price’s outlet, and there Was the question of taking over the existing plant at Ngatea bridge. -Members agreed that pumps were a necessity, and it was desirable to get the settlers together as soon as possible to ascertain what they were prepared to do.

Mr Thompson said that the settlers were willing to be rated. Mr J. C. Miller pointed out that the settlers <>f the Kopuarahi district were very keen on having pumps installed in their district. The clerk was instructed to get in touch with the settlers concerned and urge the advisability of doing something as soon as possible.