THE KIWITEA STREAM

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 24, 7 August 1888, Page 2

THE KIWITEA STREAM

TO THE EDITOR OF THE iS^Aßri Sjk,— By your repent of th<er 'Bqrough Council meeting, held ooiTnairsday last, the Engineer states that the- pr< teetive work done on the Kiwitea atreaniiristead of injuring my property is saving it. If he had said the piece of road, adjoining the bndjrei there would te some truth ia it. Mr Bray's pr6teetifve v ifp-rk* like the protective policy of the Government s may be «6mg to do' wonders By and bye, bat in the meantime 'many \ilt have tosuffer, but, in this case r I ; am the nnfor-tunatei6dividtfal,-/aß.^wSl^ry to prove. Before the last fresh there ira« over half a chain left by me- outside my fence for the convenience of v tbe. public, by agreement with the- Council, , and for which f was paid. During the first part of the fresh it was used^fbr wheel traffic. At the present time* there is barely twelve feel ifronj; ; the ? feice! t^thft'fedl© of the river, and the Wxt small fresh will, if matters remain ai- they are r wa»h my fence- away again;- £ should not haye taken upon my self to- criticise: Mr Bray'sworks on the Kiwitea, but : a» he hasmadethe above assertion, I, feel myself at liberty to do so. la the first^place. I maintain that he has hot allowed sufficient room between this, protective work and the point of the cliff, and:lhcfreby forcing the water through aod rdtfed the upper end of the groin, which cau**s the full force of the current to act on my laud daring a fresh. That th* row of piles nntT wire last erectoA ha*; had i»A> beneficial effect, but the eoatrajy. as it has formed a bank of gravel wfiere it wasdeep waW'before^'^;Tnat^it^iß'*''qiaiite impracticable to tarn a stream at right angles, which is sutiject to floods. That the money expended in cutting the drain was utterly wasted. That the scrubbing on wire is far more efficients and much less lostly, than, tlje wire crate used, and I maintain that the ob«trticti,ot> '. men* tioned by CouneUlor Chamberlain, at one of the Council meetings, was the. pri«eiple cause Of the first damage 'by divertiny the stream round the md of the groin then erected^ and what remains of it is still doing harm by preventing th» water taking a - jgradua&?swe»pv. towards the point. 1 beg to point out that al» though the Engineer of Jhe Palmerston Borough told the : Qonnci^rs , : that the drain referred to in f heir late action was doing no harm to !Mr Miivefipft's property; the Jury did pot see it , in the sameJijlit. 1 hare no s wish ti> enter into litigation, . but would nnieh sooner see money laid out more profitably to all concerned, and. to show that I wish to lay my case, clearly before : the Copncil, if they, as a Committee {nqt-.the. Fublio Works .Committee o^ly), . wß| appoint a' time,.l will aconveyance, and endeavor to justify my opinions to them on the greund, and if Aey* then consider my property is being saved ibid not injured, they most then take steps to provide a.roadfpr the. public durittg. a flood, for they will not be allowed, to ko through m J P^PfiJrtJ «? befoce.--I am, &c. K , Kiwitea, August^,^^SS^"v~C,