HUTT RIVER EROSION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2287, 22 October 1914, Page 9

HUTT RIVER EROSION

LOAN FOB PROTECTIVE .WORKS. • To-day, the'' ratepayers of the Hutt Eiver Board District will be asked to vote upon a proposal to raise a loan of £5000, for the purpose of carrying out extended river protective works, the major portion of which were recently' recommended by Mr. G. LaineMeason, M.1.C.8i The po'ling. Booths will be as under-:—Kivor Bdard offices, Lower Hutt;, Church of England Schoolroom,. Taita; and Hutt Counfy Office, Wellington. In connection witli tno abovo poll, tliere was but a moderate attendance of ratepayers at a publio mooting.. hold on Tuesday at Lower Hutt, the , chairman of the HuR River Board (Sir. H. Baldwin) presiding. Several members of the board were also present. Mr. Baldwin outlined the proposed scheme (which, in the report ot Mr. Laing-Mcaeon has already been published), and stated that owing to a largo amount of erosion fraving taken place in, various portions of the river banke, it became absolutely necessary for the safety of Lower Hutt that protective works should 'be constructed. Mr. Baldwin added that the work wae needed so urgently that in the event or, ijho ratepayers refusing; to sanction the proposed loan, the board would bo compelled to find other means to proceed with such a necessary work. It wae _not< proposed to raise the loan im- , mediately,, in view of the present crisis ia Europe, but the board would bo enabled, once the sanction of the ratepayers wqs obtained, to carry oh a certain amount of work upon its overdraft. . ■-.■.-'