AKA AKA DRAINAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 12

AKA AKA DRAINAGE

MEETING OF BOARD (From Our Own Correspondent.) PUKEKOHE, To-day. The Aka Aka Drainage Board met on Saturday, the chairman, Mr. W. Hosking, presiding. The Franklin Electric-power Board advised that it would be prepared to extend the power lines to connect with the pumps for emptying the Mangawhero Creek into the Waikato River at a cost of £65. A reduction in the power charges could be made if pumping operations were ceased during milking hours.—The action of the clerk in accepting the offer and urging the completion of the line was approved. The chief drainage engineer, Auckland, intimated that a subsidy of £351 17s 8d payable on account 'of works undertaken by the board would be remitted at an early date.

The chairman was appointed to represent the board at the annual conference of drainage boards to be held in Wellington this week. It was reported by the contractor, Mr. C. H. Irwin, that the two low-level pumps for the purpose of forcing water • through the Mangawhero Creek floodgate into the Waikato River when in normal flood, would be completed in about two weeks. The high-level pumps to be used for pLimping water from the creek into the river when at an abnormal height would be attended to later.