NEWS AND NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 935, 30 September 1910, Page 5

NEWS AND NOTES.

HOROYYHENUA COUNTY LOAN BILU The Horowhenua. County, Loan-Sill ap. ■"..■■■J pears to have, had a severe. handling : - ] 'the Local Bills the Bill, ■ 011 and .short title of the clauses and the schedule have been . deleted/' and the'.fpllovdng yf -' :?! "The council, may borrow under the- '.-t Local Bodies' ■ Loans Act, 1903 (but with- ■ : -.j out obtaining the consent of the ratepay-. ' ors thereto), such sum as is'necessary to .H pay back to its general account the sum . i of: JJ722 7s. 6d., together with interest ' j thereon, and to pay the expenses incurred ! therewith. The moneys borrowed shall be '• ; applied only for the purposes of thi3 • -: J Act, and the loan shall ,bo deemed' a. : - special loan within the meaning ;of Sec- . ' vi tions 32 and 36 of tho "Water Supplyixt, "• i 1908." ' , i

KAHAUTARA RIVER DISTRICT, 1 A petition was, presented to tho House yesterday by- Mr. W. C. Buchanan, on '■>: ■' 'i behalf of: John MHaster and 24 others, ' in regard to the: Kahautara River Board 1 ' = District,Featherston, feonstilntcd for tho purpose of orechag a slop-banl: to pro. - i tect tho land ,of sis ratepayers; from the flood water of ,tho Huamahanga ' Eiver. v ■ :'! ■Petitioners urgo that their lands will bo ■ -$a 4*l seriously damaged by tho diversion of tho * flood 1 water that , must take place if th'e >■' ■iV board is permitted to erect the proposed i: stop-bank. The damage threatened to the ' petitioners, it is sttiUxljbcciiirio so unp(ri,rthat only. three of tho six Tutcpaveib in the Riv<sv Board District are in favour ' >'J of erecting , ask^®^i the House to grant them relief by amend- • V -lug the River Boards Act 1 or -otherwisel-