To the Editor of the Marlborough Express.
Sir, I would suggest that Mr. Dobson’s plan should be proceeded with, as I do not see any other that will answer so well, and at the same time that a belt of furze should be sown on the shingle across the Opawa near the head, which will have great effect in securing the shingle, and no doubt in time will gather a bank; but at the same time something should he done with the -Opawa bends, so as to straighten its course and shorten the distance, as it will always have to take its share in flood times, and to do this I propose that a tax should be levied on all lands, not to exceed sixpence per acre, and that in the town not to exceed twelva shillings and sixpence for every one hundred pounds worth of real property, and that such as flour-mills and sawmills should be considered as town property— Yours, &c., A Country Settler. July 15th, 1868.
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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 126, 18 July 1868, Page 4
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