DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 682, 6 December 1909, Page 8

DAILY NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

' DEPTHS IN THE EIVER.

ißy ToJisroDt.-Soecial CbrrraDooaenM •vu uW m Wansamii,; December' 5. lne Uasttechff ; Town Board is considering, a ,sd»me-;for, improving, the.streete'of that suburb P, d . ,'"«■.: approached '•; the Harbour, "■ Board (which, owns: most' of ''tleUend at.Caetkcliff) with-ajiea-. ia the. two bodies cooperating in the matter. The Harbour Board's engineer and the. iWn, Board's-foreman will opnfer;'togother' and bodies will then go further into the scheme. . The growth.-of.CcisaecliS' has'--been yey. masked' during .the. last two-or thTee years ■and s as its. popelation. continues '.to- increase it is certainly, high time eome.thrng was done to ciKQiee «ie pEoseat- rather , , primitive aspect of' its etreote, ;■'•• ■-, ■ ■-.-.. ■■ ■• ." ...- ■'•./..,:■■.■.

_ /Hie (fejfii.. in the bar channel continues to tmprow, tn. cpnsecpience of the woiis beins proseenied .at- the mouth. of-.'the- : river. Tho gamm depJi.laet. monih;was'6in.j'giving r, l3ft" 6m. of waiter in' thV shallowest part of the ehimml. The harbonr engineer ako'reports that the 'KitliDg; channel ivithin the rivor is : .increaemg in'dopth. & statement by fhe chadr-' man of the Harbbnr ; -Boar<l the pre■£OT,t scheme of works will need a further: expen-ditm-ejef £Zl\32S they, are finished. With monejß in hand,; J5»M34, and an expected sortro ? l '^ n ® current year's reremieacoobat of £3/75; the-dhairman : expects a Rorpius of over :£l6fißo Tflien.;the works are'finished, and , :this in; all probabaifcj- will; be devoted to 'further hoxbonr -inrproyemeTiis. Thqngh in some cpiarters it. has- been 'that.'.it 'is a mishAe to lay up-the dredge (which.has been at irork in the eailing obannel), the chairman points out that-.it "is nseless .to dredge the nver to a depth of 22ft..unless there'is tiu& depth on the bar also.'-. The board has, therefore, decided to ensmend dcedging operationß in the meantime and to go on with, the woris at the entrance,' resuming dredging when the depth in the latter place rea<4ee the'-figOTe-.whio'h is beingatmedat -The Wahganni Cokniy Council passed a resolntion,expwssing a preference for the.Loans to Local -Bodies 1 : -Aot- over the proposed Guaranteed -Adsoinces Bill. The counoil'also resolved to. support the Southland Count? Council regarding the request that an amendment be made to Hie' Public Works Act giving couaty councils or road boards power to require owners of land subdividing same, for sale to graTel all roads and etreets.. in connection with, such snhdivisions. ..-'■'■ ' : ■ • •; :■ ■;■'■...-..■..■.

Mr. P. OT3ea has been elected to succeed Mt. W. p. Cargill' as representative" of the /Northern Ward on the' Education Board,' defeating Messrs. Murray and Neilson by a large majonty. Mr. OTlea, who is practising law at 'Hawera, was not long .' ago: a tEaoher'" under the board, iuid membors of the board's-'teaching staff.; are,-it is said..looking forward to hie '■'stirring 7 firings.up." : >'■ . . / .' r .' Connctillor.Mason has been re-elected chairman, of .tho AVaognniii County Council, and CorincilloTS lietoher and Mniiningtoii haw been appointed' Hie council's repreeenxatiwos. <in the .Hosßital ,and r CJjariiahle .Aid Bewde,, •':: -.■•:. ■«