 However, the administrative bodies with responsibility for managing the drainage of low-lying areas did not have sufficient resources to do this effectively.Complaints to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries made during the 1920s by existing drainage boards and those who lived and worked in the areas they covered led to the government deciding that a thorough review of the situation should be carried out.A Royal Commission was set up, under the chairmanship of Lord Bledisloe, which produced a final report on 5 December 1927.