STRICKEN HOKITIKA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2123, 15 April 1914, Page 6

STRICKEN HOKITIKA

GCrt ERNMENT RENDLRLNG AID

j Tie officials of tuo Public D«« Ipiitmrii are t-"kinp an ac'no part ia Jtl e ttfor's \w arc being riadc to ar« res; 'ho 11 road« of the te >t Hokidka.

. XilterioVFcd t>ll tjio suiijeet yestefiday, ■tho Hon. Eraser (Jliiiisteir of Pilbljo V?orks) saiti i\nA evcrvihing possible was being done io try" to stem the eiieroadtmsrit by the sea itpofi th.o sandWHs. ihfe district engin:e?.r O&. ShiiT : [).e> *as reiido.rii'ig every ayistaiicd :he could., and Mi". i\ W, iMirtert iSnspeeting; en..ginpe.i- foir .thp South I.sl'an.d} would be at HbL-iti.ka h$ to-nidrrow (Thursdav.) liiglit. Hβ B'quH have gono there tift. day but- for tljo fact tjlat ;nq traiii i> available. Trivhis fa. , . tlu> Cd.as.t ■'Oii.r-istc.twircli tiily o.ii thrcti -fl. week —T ■itesd.aj-s, tind Sitt«Hlay.s. The Minister stated thai; the .dlstfipij (Mjaineer, -who has « gang o.f iiten wfcr iiig at Hoivitvka, hart b.eoij aiitliorisptl to deftay half the cost of wta.t is being don* ta uretecfe flip tofrn. Plans ior eXtenstw foreshore tip.ii ftorfcs at .H\o:fcvtfkn. had. befeit prepiiredi and ayr.Mxge.nVefi.ts had I*i3ii insdo ■for it, coiinnen:cenie.nt <sf.;fch.o wefkj jus.b ■jieiqre tlio present trtfifble Sros&. ;Tb.e intentioii is to e.reo't griijfnes, at r.iijliiw ■angles to the bfisit'li, siinilitr to thOsiS erected somo. forty year* sgs, in order to :tssist> the reaceimuilation of sand.-. Of w,ur:s:e, Sir. Ffasei , roniarketli imfh" ing of this kind tiou'il. l>6 iit.t.cm.pttfd while ti.lo p.resont s'iorni was .ragftip. It is estinvatiod tliat tlift orectimf of the .■groynes will eosl £1000, mi\i-M this evim-the'Cm-ernnreiit is Iβ way lijrjf. Tljo Sfiivister 'k awaiting n .ifottuM report from Mi'. FilrJjoft a-s to .the <«■«■* conation <j'f the fererf.iorev at Holsitiks, but his !Me*sciii MifaraifttioSit is tlrat VliOWr •i.s derni «at<?c chso Up tft tho .shore, tnd that Aβ eousfruetion of aw effottive barrier aßainst the wicrcsohnieiits of the :,» wHT& a ol great difiiadty.

Ut. H. V- ToojioOf}, G,Km eißilJeer fw tl'o'Hekiwlsn Works, who is uti present in Wrflinstoft, riuted yostonfe tljfl-t 5-ic hflrt word injih liok-w iika that the harbour works ma, \vitiv , ■stood'the stew, and so far aptoW to be Asototily wiaiffeiete:d % tlte Str ( ai# put Upon thenu