HANDLING OF FLAX

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 32302, 20 August 1943, Page 7

HANDLING OF FLAX

WORK AT KAIHERE MILL TRAMLINE ACROSS ROAD REQUEST TO COUNTY COUNCIL A request for permission to lay a further set of tram rails across the Ngatea-Wharoa highway at Kaihere to facilitate the handling* of flax from barges in the canal to the flaxmill was made by N.Z. Woolpack and Textile Ltd,, of Mangaiti, to the recent meeting of the Hauraki Plains County Council. N.Z. Woolpack and Textiles, Ltd., wrote to the council as under:— “On behalf of the above company I hereby make application for your council’s permission to lay another set of tram rails across the Ngatea- Wha-

roa Highyay directly opposite the present entrance to the flaxmill and crossing the road at right angles. “We intend bringing the barge up the canal and unloading it at a small wharf to be built between the canal bank and canal side thereby eliminating the long haul from the river as at present. “Another reason is that it is our intention to unload the flax from the barge by elevator and power is handy at that point for this purpose. “ It is proposed to cut the stopbank at road level and put in a floodgate for use in an emergency. This proposition has been discussed with and approved: of by Mr Taylor, engineer of the Land and Survey Department, Kerepeehi.” The council granted permission, the work to be done to the satisfaction of the clerk and engineer.