HUTT RIVER STOP BANKS.
———♦ QUOTED WITH APPROVAL. ()» Telegraph—Press Association.) Auckland, June 6. Giving evidence before the Ohincmnri River Silling Commission, E. D. Clayton, engineer, at one time resident at Hutt, stated that the erection of stop banks had effectively coped with the floods I here. The banks were Ml. abovo the highest flood level, lift, wide at the top. and the cost ■«= .EI2S7 a mile. The protection works hail practically made the Hutt district, the population having trebled in a short time.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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82HUTT RIVER STOP BANKS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 5
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