MOUTOA DRAINAGE BOARD.
Good progress is being made with this work and given fine weather for a few weeks the erection of floodgates, and excavating the first portion from the river to the road should be nearly com - pleted. Seven teams, ploughing and scooping, and about twenty men including drivers, are kept busily at work, and are now making a good show. The pile driving for flood gates is expected to be completed in a few days, and when the gates are fitted the water will be kept back thus allowing a still greater scope for the workmen.
The first portion of the drain being the deepest, the work was necessarily slow, but as it gels further back it shallows, and bar timber and floods, greater progress will be made.
It is easy to be seen from the work already done, what an immense advantage will be gained, uot only by the landowners concerned, but by the County Council and the travelling public, by the water having a greater outlet, and being able to get off the land so much more rapidly.
The Board are fortunate in obtaining the services of a good body of men and such a practical man as foreman Madden to guide them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 23 February 1909, Page 3
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207MOUTOA DRAINAGE BOARD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 23 February 1909, Page 3
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