TUTAEKURI MAKES OWN MOUTH

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 130, 18 June 1937, Page 4

TUTAEKURI MAKES OWN MOUTH

Diversion Scheme Virtually Completed LAST BIG UNDERTAKING The Tutaekuri river formed its own mouth into the bay last night, thus virtually completing the Ha^ke 's Bay River Board 's scheme in connection with the improvement to that river, which has involved an expenditure of something over £100,000. The Tutaekuri has been emptying itself through the Ngaruroro's mouth for the past two years, having been diverted at Meeanee from its original course to the Inner Harbour to the Waitangi. For the past year there has been considerable activity in this area preparing the Tutaekuri channel and constructing a groin across the mouth of the river where it flowed into the Ngaruroro. This latter work was completed yesterday, since when the Tutaekuri river has ponded back over its course, presenting an interesting spectacle to travellers over the ' Napier-Hastings road. The beach where it was proposed that the new mouth should be, straight out to sea from the new traffic bridge, was weakened, with the result that last night the accumulated water burst through at this spot. The river now hqs an exce}lent mouth to take its own waters, and it may now be said that the years of work upon this river and the expenditure of large sums of money have been completed. There still remains, however, a comparatively small amount of work to b* done on the groin.