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THE WAIMAKARIRI.

| TO THE BDITOS Or THJ FKJSS. ! Sir,—Your correspondent, Mr George Gould, is apparently in accord with that part of the Trust's scheme which provides to make a cut at Wright's Corner, when he says: "The rapidly rising riverbed above the old creamery site "on Coutts Island is almost entirely due to the bottle-neck corner at that" point, below which there is a tine fall to the bottom of the Cutting. I'liless the river is released here at Wright's Corner, as proposed by the Trust scheme No. 2, Coutts Island first, and later on Belfast and parts of .Marshland, must be overwhelmed." But it would appear as if he objected to an expensive bridgo in tho Trust scheme, estimated b;- them to cost £25,000. but which lie considers will cost more likely £40,000. In that matter, I would like to point out that he ca.nnni have the cut he advocates without providing a_ new bridge at whatever the cost. At the same time, I wculrl like to inform him that the estimated cost of the Selwrn bridge is £IO,OOO, not £20,000 as" he indicates, which bridge is only 50 feet shorter than the one the Trust proposes to build at a cost of £25,000. Mr Gould being a candidate for a seat on the Trust, 4 and being an advocate of this particular cut, which, in addition to the necessary works in connexion with it, involves a new bridge at a cost, he considers, of £40,000, and the taking at considerable expense of a considerable area of land to make provision for the cut, I would be pleased if he would be good enough to state how he proposes to meet this expenditure.—Yours, etc., HENRY H. HOLLAND. TO THE IDITO» 0» TH3 FBBSS. Sir, —I hate funerals, so please don't write any more articles like that which appeared this morning under the above heading. An attack of Apploploxy and your sudden demise, is the inevitable result of such outbreaks of frenzy, if continued. The Press was ever futile and hopeless as a guide to public opinion from the moment it commenced it's queer and twisted existence, resisting the building of the Lyttelton Tunnel to the present time, but I doubt if it has ever done a greater disservice to the people of.this City than in it's endeavours to dissuade them against protecting themselves from the menace of tho Waimakarari. I repeat that the menace is a real one and it cannot be dismissed by the fatuous word-spinning of the Press with it's multitude of inverted commas that make n Press Editorial in recent years look like a Chinese script. Deeds, not foolish words like those of your Editorial this morning arc required to tight the menace of the old Waimak.

You say that you want proof of the reality of the menace. Really have you any intelligence at all or have you mado the least endeavour to make yourself acquainted with the facts. Do you not know that the bed of the river is rising surely if slowly by aggradation? that the top of the Christchurch Cathedral spire is level with the bed of the river at McLean's Island? that in all the area surrounding, Christchurch is the lowest point? that tho law of gravitation still holds good and that water (like tho intelligence of The Press) always finds it's lowest level?. When the bed of the river has lifted a little more and a heavier fresh than that we experienced comes down, what can happen but a spillover to the City? You say you desire a policy of river-control as strongly as the Trust. Well for Heavens sake let us have your plan. If you have a better ono than that already put forward it is really mean of you to hido it so effectively and so long.—Yours, etc., D. G. SULLIVAN. [We gladly print Mr Sullivan's letter, unaltered, and we hope our readers will be able, as we are nof, lo make head or tail pi.' it. Mr Sullivan ought at least to ascertain the name of the river.—Ed., The Press.]

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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 17

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THE WAIMAKARIRI. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 17

THE WAIMAKARIRI. Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 17

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