THE MEANEE DISTRICT.
To the Editor of the Hawke's Bay Times. Sir, —The Meanee district has again been visited with a great flood. That fertile and once nourishing settlement appears doomed to suffer, and if something more is not done than the tinkering—miscalled " engineering"—which has been going on, that part of the district near the river will be uninhabitable. Who that knows anything about water-courses which overflow their banks would for a moment think of preventing it with banks of sand 1 When will the chief officer of the Government exert himself by inspecting the works carried on under that Government, and with Provincial funds? T fear he will not so long as he commands a majority in the Provincial Council, one of the members of which body is content to perform the Superintendent's duty during that official's absence for months from the Province, for—as I am told —the honor only. I am, Sir, one who will be delighted to see people look to the in terests of the Province, and not allow two or three people to rule them so as to enable themselves to mount the ladder of their ambition to a seat in the General Government. —I am, &c, Meanee. 12th Feb., 1869.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 656, 15 February 1869, Page 3
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206THE MEANEE DISTRICT. Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 656, 15 February 1869, Page 3
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