CHALLENGE TO MINISTER
RIVER CONTROL
RESENTMENT FELT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
NAPIER, This Day.
A challenge to the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple) to debate the Hawke's Bay river control question on a public platform and a further offer by a member of the board to donate £100 towards a charitable object if his statement that the Pakowhai area had "not received a fair deal" was proved incorrect, were high lights of a meeting of the Rivers Board today.
Keen resentment was voiced by board members at statements made by Mr. Semple while in Napier recently, and a letter from Mr. J. Wood, engin-eer-in-chief, Public Works Department, expressing agreement with the board's programme of works was read. Opposition to the views of other members of the board, however, was expressed by Mr. H. M. Thompson, who contended that /the board had not fulfilled its undertaking in so far as the granting of protection to the Pakowhai area was concerned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 10
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161CHALLENGE TO MINISTER Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1938, Page 10
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