4334 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 193

4. Effective Date 30.6.89
5. Date of Purchase 3.7.90
6. Date of Financial Settlement 9.4.92

Amount of Settlement ($)
7. Purchase price paid for the assets 960,000
8. Water rates revenue refunded 486,148
9. Other payments by the Crown 0
10. Net Settlement by Purchaser 533,439
11. Debtors transferred to Purchaser ($) 23,040

Assets & Liabilities of the Crown before Settlement ($)
12. Historic Capital Cost 8,979,193
13. Accumulated Liabilities 1,568,996
14. Liabilities Retained by the Crown None

MAEREWHENUA SETTLEMENT

1. Description
   The scheme serves 547 hectares on 14 properties using water from an intake on the south bank of the Waitaki River. The scheme was constructed over a 2 year period through a full supply of water was not available until 1981 due to problems with the intake. Lack of security with the intake prevented formal supply agreements from being commissioned.

On-farm development of border-dykes was funded under the 1975 policy for 50% suspensory loan. The on-farm work was eligible for a suspensory loan for a period of 10 years from the date water was first supplied to the property and finally ended with the 1986/87 financial year.

The assets include an area of land purchased to enable the intake to be extended.

2. Previous Gazette References
   29 May 1975, NZ Gazette No 45, page 1200
   11 September 1975, NZ Gazette No 74, page 2014

3. Purchaser
   Maerewhenua District Water Resource Co Ltd

4. Effective Date 31.10.89

5. Date of Purchase 3.7.90

6. Date of Financial Settlement 31.7.92

Amount of Settlement ($)
7. Purchase price paid for the assets 1
8. Water rates revenue refunded 28,184
9. Other payments by the Crown 0
10. Net Settlement by Crown 28,183
11. Debtors transferred to Purchaser ($) 0

Assets & Liabilities of the Crown before Settlement ($)
12. Historic Capital Cost 685,572
13. Accumulated Liabilities 162,784
14. Liabilities Retained by the Crown None

MANIOTOTO

1. Description
   Government approval for the Maniototo Irrigation Scheme in 1976 culminated nearly 70 years of planning and promotion from the farming community. Water is stored in the Great Moss Swamp by the Loganburn Dam. This source provides a continuous supply for irrigation when flows in the Taieri River are low.

Work on the irrigation scheme commenced in 1976 but was suspended when the Otago Electric Power Board proposed a combined Hydro Power and Irrigation Scheme under the 1978 Government policy for funding small hydro development. The Crown and the Otago Electric Power Board entered into an agreement for construction of headworks that are common to the irrigation and power schemes. The headworks were commissioned in 1986. There were major problems with the headworks due to unstable country.

A weir on the Taieri River diverts river flows into the common headworks through a 1.3 km tunnel into the power house. Water for irrigation is available at the downstream end of the penstocks.

The irrigation works restarted in 1980 but stopped again in 1983 due to rising costs. Only 3850 hectares of the west side of the Taieri River which is approximately a third of the original irrigation area, was completed.

On-farm development of border-dykes was funded under the 1975 policy for 50% suspensory loan. The on-farm work was eligible for a suspensory loan for a period of 10 years from the date water was first supplied to the property and finally ends in 1996.

After the irrigation scheme was sold by the Crown in 1990, two private irrigation companies built low cost, low impact irrigation schemes to serve an area of 2700 hectares on the east side and 1500 on the west side of the Taieri River. These areas were to have been served by the original scheme. Water to the new companies is provided by the Maniototo Irrigation Company that purchased the assets from the Crown.

2. Previous Gazette References
   26 June 1975, NZ Gazette No 53, page 1405
   18 October 1984, NZ Gazette No 188, page 4507
   3 October 1985, NZ Gazette No 185, page 4310
   3 April 1986, NZ Gazette No 48, page 1378

3. Purchaser
   Maniototo Irrigation Co Ltd

4. Effective Date 1.9.89

5. Date of Purchase 3.7.90

6. Date of Financial Settlement 29.10.91

Amount of Settlement ($)
7. Purchase price paid for the assets 1
8. Water rates revenue refunded 0
9. Other payments by the Crown 0
10. Net Settlement by Crown 0
11. Debtors transferred to Purchaser ($) 236

Assets & Liabilities of the Crown before Settlement ($)
12. Historic Capital Cost 32,078,527
13. Accumulated Liabilities 179,946
14. Liabilities Retained by the Crown None

MANUHERIKIA

1. Description
   This irrigation scheme is the earliest purpose-built community irrigation scheme though it incorporates some old mining races and mining rights near Alexandra. Construction was carried out from 1917 to 1922.

The oldest part of the scheme draws 0.8 cumec from the Chatto Creek and was constructed for mining in 1864. It was subsequently taken over by the Alexandra Borough and purchased by the Crown in 1922.

The main water source is 2.4 cumec taken from an intake in the Manuherikia River gorge. The headworks for the scheme, which are vulnerable to damage due to their age and location, comprise two tunnels 0.5km and 1.6 km in length, a silt trap, concrete channels, the Chinky Gully flume and Chatto Creek