Manifold book 1920's-1930's with newspaper clippings relating to the Palmerston North/Manawatu Oroua River Board with focus on flood control of Manawatu/Palmerston River New Zealand

New Zealand, 1920's-1930's. paperback. fair . 4to. Manifold book filled with newspaper articles from the 1920's-1930's, all relating to the business of the Manawatu Oroua/Palmerston River Board (Nth Island New Zealand); the articles cover the monthly meetings of the River Board, discussing flood control of the Manawatu Oroua/Palmerston River, referencing major floods in the 19th and early 20th Centuries, engineering on the river and river banks, Manawatu County, Horowhenua County, construction of Groynes, the Royal Commission of the 1920's, erosion, etc; includes a loose-inserted article 'Making Rivers Behave With Big Willow Switches' from the Toronto Star Weekly April 9 1927; manifold book is heavily worn, with brown tape to spine (overlapping 1/3 of covers front and rear); all pages perforated (numerous pages having come loose); articles glued in with associated buckling of pages.