SLIMES AND SLUMPS.
Sir,—When the Government of the time declared the River Ohinemuri a sludge channel, it evidently attached more importance to mining than to agriculture or navigation; that is, if it did any thinking about the mat 'ter. At anyrate, the slimes are up against us, and we don’t quite know what to do with them. If we could divert them to low swampy spots they might possibly be useful, but they are almost too elusive fpr filtration, and are quite different in character from the detritus of surface excavations. They are a and ought to be intercepted at the point of origin. Another theory for dealing with them is to confine the water in which they are carried to definite channels, but here, again, the theorists differ and the farmers die. or say they do, while kind old Mother .Nature rules us all out of court and does as she pleases with our grass and our theories. When farm produce rises in price and wild cats bloom again, we shall all be just as. eager as ever to carry on the “same old game.” EJ.N.D.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4387, 8 March 1922, Page 2
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187SLIMES AND SLUMPS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4387, 8 March 1922, Page 2
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