MANAWATU-OROUA DRAINAGE BOARD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2495, 19 October 1922, Page 3

MANAWATU-OROUA DRAINAGE BOARD.

Ah’ Edward Newman, M.P., states that the following clauses have been inserted in the Washing Up Bill in connection with the recently constituted Manawatu-Orona Dranage Board: — 36. The members of the Board of the Aornngi Drainage District and the member of the Board of the Manawatu Drainage District shall respectively be deemed to have lawfully continued in office during the period between the date on which those districts were declared to form one united district under the Land Drainage Act, 1908, by name the Manawatu Drainage District, and the date on which the members of the first Board of the said united district came into office, and all acts performed by them during such period are hereby validated in so far as those acts were necessary for the purpose of carying out any works or contracts in process of being carried out by them on the date of the constitution of the said united district. 37. Whereas certain portions of tlie Manawatu-Orona River District constituted under the River Boards 'Act, 1908, by Proclamation gazetted on the second day of September, nineteen hundred apt! twenty-two, are also comprised in certain land drainage districts constituted under the Land Dranage Act, 1908,; And whereas it is desirable to ensure that, in the exercise of the powers conferred on the Manawatu-Orona River Board and on the Boards of the several land drainage districts, works shall not be carried out by any of such Boards detrimental to the works constructed or maintained by the others: Be it therefore enacted as follows : -- (1) Before the Manawatu-Orona River Board commences any riverwork in any portion of its district which is also comprised within a Land Drainage District, it shall give not less than fourteen days’ notice tq tlie Board of such Drainage District, and therewith shall supply full particulars of the work to lie carried out. (2) Before the Board of any Land Drainage Districts comprised in whole or in part within the Mana-watu-Oroua River District commences any new work in the River District if shall give not less than fourteen days’ notice to the River Board and therewith shall supply full particulars of the work to he carried out. (3) Nothing in the last preceding subsection shall apply to work in course of construction at Ibe dare the passing of this Act, or to any work of maintenance, repair, improvement, or reconstruction, or to the construction of subsidiary drains linking up wiih existing drains. (4) If any Board giving notice as aforesaid does not within the time specified therein receive any objection in writing from (be Board to which such notice was given, it may forthwith proceed with the work. (5) If any objection is made in writing and an agreement between the Boards' concerned cannot lie reached, the Board proposing to carry out the work shall refer the matter to (lie Engineer-in-Chief of the Public Works Department for decision. (6) The Engineer-in-Chief, or some other engineer of the Department appointed by him, after making such inquiry as lie thinks fit, shall determine whether the work shall he carried out as proposed by the Board or with any modification indicated by him. (7) Tf in accordance with the last preceding subsection it is determined that the work or the work will modifications indicated should he carried out, the Board which submitted the matter for determination may forthwith proceed to carry out the work in accordance with the determination, (8) Nothing herein shall apply in respect of the carrying-out by any Board of any urgent work to meet any emergency. - (9). Nothing in subsection two of section seventy-three of the River Boards Act. 1908, shall be so-con-strued as to deprive the ManawatuOrona River Board of jurisdiction over any part of 'the ManawatuOrona River District.