NO ACTION

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3298, 9 August 1943, Page 5

NO ACTION

TREE FALLEN IN DRAIN POWER BOARD’S DECISION A decision that no action be taken and the. previous resolution to that effect be adhere to was made by the Thames Valley Electric Power Board on Tuesday in connection with a letter from the Thames Valley Drainage Board’s solicitors in connection with a fallen* tree and hedge which had blocked a drain, causing damage by flood. The chairman, Mr J. Price, said that the trouble had arisen from the felling of a tree and portion of an eleagnus hedge which the wind had later rolled into a drain controlled by the drainage board and had caused a blockage resulting in the dammingup water when it broke away, damaging portion of a Matamata county road. There was ample evidence that drainage board men had inspected the felled tree and hedge and considered that they would do no damage. Later they were blown into the drain. The county had claimed from the drainage board and the drainage board sought to claim from the power board. The power board had taken some steps in providing material to repair the road and it was considered that in all the circumstances this should be sufficient.