FLOOD RECORDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3919, 16 March 1929, Page 2

FLOOD RECORDER.

SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION. Representatives of nearly all the local bodies were present at the Fitzherbert bridge over the Manawatu River on Thursday afternoon, when the first river level electrical recorder installed by a local body in Australia and New Zealand was put to use for the first time since the termination of the usual preliminary official tests. Installed by the Manawatu-Oroua River Board, the indicator, which automatically records the height of the river by graphs on suitable charts at the Chief Post Office, Palmerston North, must be of undoubted benefit to the farmers in the Manawatu-Oroua River Board’s district inasmuch as it will enable the farmers whose properties are liable to Hood by the Manawatu River, to be warned of possible floods and thus be enabled to reuiove their stock in time. A practical demonstration was given by Mi’. E. T. Allen, the district telegraph engineer. The recorder is worked by a float which rises and recedes with the river, and records the height of the river at all hours of the day and night. A similar indicator will be installed in the Onoua Raver near the bridge entering Feilding. The total cost for both recorders is £550.