The Kiwitea Stream

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 89, 10 January 1885, Page 3

The Kiwitea Stream

• ♦ •:■*•.: In. connection with the above, the subjoined letter from MrD.-H. Macarthur, dealing .with; the question of diverting the Xiwitea .Stream, was read*— -• - ;;;->; „ 'k. ■...-,. •-•:.., ■.-.•■; Feilding, December A l.sj, 1 884.. • H. L. Sheewhj,, Esq., " Mayor . of j Folding. : , , ; , Dxab. Sra,«— Xhave to apologise for not answering your, letter of December Bth before now., but'it escaped my attention. Before, giving, any. consent on behalf of the Corporation to the proposal to cut off. a : piece pi .land for the .purpose of jpreyeatiiig jurther ' damage , to Kjlmtjolton by ' the Kiwitea Stream.; .'I should like tp visit the sbot in' company^ with' the Boi-ough Engineer, in' ord^r'.'to ascertain more defiifitely whit iiie Council proposes to do. as I alii at' present of opinion that if^the point'is cut off the course of the stream will merely, be diverted on to a point in the road farther down, necessitating, more , breastwork, and washing away more land: I may also remark while on this subject that tne whole of the operations of the Council in putting up breastwork, &c., have been carried on on private property without the courtesy of a request for permission. ■ ,] .. . Yours faithfully, .'.".' D. H. Mac^bthvb, Agent E. & C. A. Corporation.