TWENTY YEARS AGO
GIRL FALLS INTO RIVER KEREPEEHI INCIDENT DRAIN PLOUGHS ON PLAINS (From the Hauraki Plains Gazette of July 9, 1923.) While embarking on to a launch at Kerepeehi on Thursday evening, a member of the Kerepeehi Concert Party, Miss E. Thompson, stepped over the end of the wharf into the river. The night was very dark and a strong current was running. A lantern was'produced but in the hurry it was dropped into the water. Although he was wearing an overcoat and thigh boots and could not swim, Mr W. W. Herkt sprang into the water and located, the girl. A rope was thrown and the pair brought ashore. Settlers of Waitakaruru and Pipiroa are using a drain plough to drain paddocks. This implement theii' paddocks. This implement cuts a channel about three inches in diameter about eighteen inches below the surface, and is drawn by eight horses, in circles about half a chain or less apart around the paddock. A channel is then cut, and the water pours out. The idea is not a new one and was successfully used at Turua about ten years ago. The drains functioned for about four years.,
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3286, 9 July 1943, Page 8
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196TWENTY YEARS AGO Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3286, 9 July 1943, Page 8
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