RIVER DIVERSION
WAIMANA SETTLERS CONCERN
WILLING TO FIND COST
Sixteen settlers in the Waimana area whose holdinga total G65 acres have written the Whakatane County Council signifying their intention of bearing the full cost of the diversion of the. W T aimana _ River below Tahora, and requesting that this be undertaken with the Council's plant. Their estimate of the total cost is £250 which they are prepared tc find by spreading" it pro rata over the acreage held by individual.
The list was forwarded by Mr E. J. Brown and though a" large percentage of the persons concerned are Maori landowners the council decided that the work be underMr Brown to pay the council's account of £250 or more and to be responsible for the recovery of any amounts which under the above undertaking would be due to him.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 20, 31 October 1944, Page 5
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139RIVER DIVERSION Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 20, 31 October 1944, Page 5
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