Moutoa Drainage Board Minute Books

This series contains the minutes of the Moutoa Drainage Board from 1908 to 1989. The minutes are a record of decisions reached on financing the Board’s work, correspondence received from outside organisations and people, appointments of significant staff, reports on work undertaken and demands from the public and complaints dealt with. They provide a legal framework for the operation of the Board and underpin all other records kept. They are arranged in meeting date order and there are no indexes. Meetings were run as formal committee meetings with notices of motion moved, seconded and voted on. Other documents may occasionally be found pasted into the books, for example a copy of the Ratepayers Classification list for 1927 may be found in the first minute book.