Hungahunga Drainage Board.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4359, 12 January 1909, Page 2

Hungahunga Drainage Board.

A meeting of the above Board was held at noon on Saturday last in the Secretary’# (Mr F. W. Wild) office, Boundary-Street, Te Aroha. Present: Messrs Hanna (chairman), Orr, and Franks. * Minutes read and confirmed. Inward and/ outward correspondence dealt with. The engineer (Mr C. C. Otway) 1 forwarded his report as follows : “ I have levelled and plotted the drain from Piratmui to Waihekau drains as pegged out by Contractor O’Brien, and find there would be 3 feet fall in the 105 chains. Allowing for the subsidence of the vegetable swamp at the. Waihekau end this, will be sufficient in that di'sftace* to allow the water to run well. TSah'drain (as it is to be the outlet for • the-top waters) should be ? feet bottom, ,wMek width I propose to make it with an average depth of sft 6in when finished, allowing for batter about 10ft top. The drain through Messrs Orr. Carroll, Coad; >and to Mr Frank's boundary I have laid oht find there is a gooj fall into the Waibarakeke drain of between 6 and 7 feet when finished, and this ?n the length of 110 chains'will allow for i a good fall in the water. This drain runs in a) Straight line through Orr’e and Carrojfot aud follows the old course of the ’‘-creek through Coa&’s into Frank’s boundary. J intend to make this drain 3 feet om throughout and about Offset deep. J inspected the slips in drain done by Carr.>ll and Coad, would take £lO or £l2 to clean out, and it certainly requires doing, but maybe it would be best to give the Board’s attention to cleaning' out all the necessary drains at the same time. Old Mr J. H. Johnson is not at home, and understand he is ill, and I did not go into the matter of line of drain from the end of 5 B past the mill x to the road. I notice Johnson has been damming the water back, probably for the use of his

cattle, “his will have to bo attended to before the winter and drain cleaned out , to bridge. . } f inspected old blind creek down through Schar’a and will report to your Boatd later, i The diain (continuation of McLaren’s) I have chained out and levelled, it being in deep country and ample fall-30 chains in length -1 propose to make a , 3 feet bottom—being a lot of timber i could not make it any smaller—with auy saving. I I went over Hughes’ drain with Mr Fred Hughes Jr. This drain wants [ cleaning out from the bringing up the fall, and then carrying the depth through .to junction 5 A and 58. In carefully ( looking over the drain I think it would I bq best to do it by day work from the bridge lip to the present hard bar—about j 15 chains—would not be a large job to ; bring the fall up; from that oh about 20 ' chains of hard bars in .different places require shooting to junction o'A and 58. j Mr Hughes, junr:, tells me he” can get 4 ''good men to work now, and I want the Beard to allow me to put these men on at once. I particularly want the Board to understand the fact that 5 A and 5 B cannot be gone on with in any way until this work is done, and I recommend the Board to have it done the way I suggest. [ I propose to call for tenders (first section) Piraunui Junction, -with Waitoa [ -River to the Railway' Bridge.. I think it ris.best not to let. too much, at once, as it ! may relieve the waterwfi-oiu the-tap section, havingit first done to the bridge. This part, which is on a defined stream, will be made to a width (when finished) of 12 feet and 4 feet deep. The stream for about 30 chains through Mesrss Larneys will be the most difficult and the most expensive, being/very much choked and full of timber. From this on to -bridge will be principally dragging and cutting the vegetable matter away, and can only be done from pixnt, as some of the holes are 6 and 7 feet deep. It was resolved to adopt the whole of the Engineer's suggestions. The members decided to meet on the 21st inetv and inspeot Messrs Schaate, Sheet, Franklin, Clark Bros., and i Peterson’s drains. Resolved to pay Johnson £24 2s on his contracts, leaving the balance over until the engineer had been communicated with. It was resolved on the motion of Mr Hanna seconded by Mr Orr that the stripping of the Waihekau be continued from Diagonal road to Given’s.

I On the motion of Mr Hanna seconded I by Mr Franks, the engineer be instructed | to report upon Stark’s outlet at once . j Accounts were passed for payment and ‘ | the meeting terminated. i' -