FLOODED COUNTRY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., This Day.
The sitting of the Manawatu-Orona River District Commission of Inquiry into the River Board's £450,000 flood control scheme was continued this morning, when the chairman of the board, Mr. Carter, continued his evidence.' In answer to Mr. H. E. Leighton, v member of the Commission, who asked if the scheme would materially increase the productivity of the land affected, the witness said that it would have a beneficial effect by allowing the safe wintering of stock, and the growing of crops, and in other ways. Mr. F. C. Hay, the board's engineer, said that the whole watershed affecting the area proposed tc be protected comprised 1,530,000 acres, of which 857,600 were cast of the Tararua and Kuahine Eanges. The watershed drained the areas from Mauricevillo to north of Ormondvillo, and sixty miles of eastern slopes of the Tararua and Buahino "Ranged) which had a heavy rainfall. The inquiry is proceeding.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 53, 31 August 1926, Page 11
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