IWANGAWARA RIVER.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17980, 27 March 1930, Page 6

IWANGAWARA RIVER.

MEETING OF BOARD. RATING SYSTEM QUESTION. OFFER OF LOAN MONEY. The Mangawara River Board met in Hamilton yesterday, the acting-chair-man, Mr J. G. Harvey, presiding. It was decided to write to the Minister of Internal Affairs asking that in the proposed Land Drainage and River Protection Act provision be made to allow a referendum to be taken on the question of whether rates should be levied on the acreage basis or the unimproved or capital values bases. The clerk was instructed to seek support from all river and drainage boards in the Auckland province. An offer was received from the Bank of New Zealand on behalf of a client to lend £IOOO of the £2OOO public works short term loan repayment loan. The clerk was authorised to accept the oiler. Doubt About Proposals. With regard to the proposal to carry out certain drainage construction and improvement works to the old creek in the Tenfoot special rating artea. the board’s solicitor expressed the opinion that this work could not be financed out of the additional 10 per cent on the loan money unless it was included in the proposals placed before the ratepayers prior to th'eir signing the deed of consent. Members held some doubts concerning these proposals, and it was ■left to a committee to interview the engineer and to obtain more definite information to submit to the solicitors. The clerk reported that Mr J. Carswell had interviewed him complaining of the delay in the finalising of the transfer of part of his land severed by river cuts which had been occupied by neighbours for some years, and claiming interest on the amount involved. The board’s solicitors advised that such a claim should have been made under the Public Works Act within twelve months of the completion of the river works on ills property, and that the claim could not now be sustained. It was decided to inform Mr Carswell of the legal report. The clerk announced that the triennial election for board' members would bo held on April 16 and nominations would close at noon on April 2. The solicitors advised that any person nominated to represent any subdivision must be a ratepayer within that subdivision; also that any ratepayer could vote irrespective of the class of rcite for which lie was rated.