MOUTOA DRAINAGE BOARD

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1046, 4 January 1913, Page 3

MOUTOA DRAINAGE BOARD

MONTHLY MEETING

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Moutoa Drainage Board was held in the Council Chamber last night- Present: — Messrs Gower (chairman), Easton and Hammond. Apologies . for absence were received from Messrs Barber and Robinson.

The Clerk reported the amount to credit of loan account at 14s Bd, and to general account £l7l iis 3d. Wages amounting to £2B 5s rod had beeu paid since the previous meeting. Accounts amounting to £sx 16s 7d against loan account, and ,£129 2s .sd against general account were passed for payment. The overseer reported as follows;—“I beg to report since last meeting having completed the new cut as lar as the dredging is concerned. We have steamed the dredge as far as Mr Easton’s stables, and are at_ present dismantling same, and two loads have been placed in trucks at the railway station. With fair weather and good luck, it should be away, from the present site about Tuesday next. I visited the stop bank at Burr’s road, as instructed, and find that the bank has been cut in several places, and inserted. Box culverts have been put through the bank in two places, with small flood-gates on the river side. The inside measurements of these two culverts are nine inches by six inches. In another place the bank has been cut to carry away the water from the washing machines, through twelve inch pipes for about a chain or more, then through a bbx culvert under the stop bank, and from there to an open flaming into the river. This culvert also has a flood-gale on the river side, the measurement being sixteen inches by twelve inches. The bank has also been cut for the purpose of laying pipes from the pump to the river, two five-inch pipes being used for the purpose.” The Board dealt with the latter part of the report in committee.