HON. J. G. COATES’ VISIT
DEPUTATION FROM WHAREPOA.
MATTER OF FLOOD DAMAGE. A number of settlers from Wharepoa. within the Thames County boundary, waited on the Hon. J. G. Coates, Minister for Public Works, at the Public Works Department’s office, Paeroa. on Saturday afternoon. Mr T. W. Rhodes, member for Thames introduced the deputation, the members of which drew the attention of the Minister to the damage that had occurred by flooding in the district. It was requested that as the area under review came within the Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Scheme the Public Works Department should take up the work of widening and deepening the Omahu creek. If this work was undertaken before next winter, it was contended, considerable relief would be given to the settlers in that area, and the heavy losses sustained by flooding last year would in the future be reduced to a minimum.
The deputation was sympathetically received by Mr Coates, and after consultation with his engineers an underw’as given that he would inspect the area while in the district, and that a reply to the request would be forwarded from Wellington as early as possible.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4792, 22 December 1924, Page 2
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192HON. J. G. COATES’ VISIT Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4792, 22 December 1924, Page 2
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