THE HARPER DIVERSION.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17118, 13 April 1921, Page 6

THE HARPER DIVERSION.

.'• ,- -4 —— TIMABU fiOEOUGH COUNCIL'S . ATTITUDE. (SrECUL to "the riass.") TIMARU, April 12. At a meeting of tho Timaru Borough Council the Mayor said that the Canterbury Progress League had been very. energetic in the matter of the diversion of the Harpc: , iver in order to keep Lake Coleridge up to a safe level, and he felt sure that the Timaru Borough Council would support tho Progress League in its efforts to get tho diver■Bion works made permanent. To keep the temporary work going was costing £4O a week, or £2OOO a year, and the estimated cost of making the work permanent was not mora than £IO,OOO. It would therefore be a sound proposition to go in for the permanent work, and he thought the Council should back up the Progress League and also ask the.M.P.'a lor South Canterbury what they could do in the matter. The Mayor proposed: "That the action- of the Canterbury Progress League in urging tho Government to-proceed with the permanent diversion of the Harper river be supoprted, and that tho members of Parliament for South Canterbury be asked to urge, the paramount necessity for this work on the Government.?' The motion was carried unanimously. A further motion was carried: "That the Minister-of Public Works be written to requesting, him to make adequate arrangements for permanently diverting the Harper river into Lake Coleridge."