MORE SUGGESTIONS.

Manawatu Herald, 8 June 1895, Page 3

MORE SUGGESTIONS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANAWATU HFRALD. Sir, — With your kind permission, I would make a few more suggestions, and point out benefits, the district is likely to reap from the Foxton and Moutoa Gut. In my previous letter I mentioned the necessity of planting the south side with willows, (the weeping I consider best, they root deep and thick). It will be just as necessary to plant the north side, but allowing enough room for the cutting to widen, to eventually carry the river water, say 3 or 4 chain. If a long Jib dredge is used, it would drop the stuff far enough back, to form a fair road bed from end to end. After the Gut was in working order you would have about 20 mile of old river course easily convertable into a floating harbour, if required, with another township on the south side, say at the Piaka, Bristol of the southern Hemisphere), t [o which fair sized steamers could go even now, and, I am inclined to believe, a township at that part of the river, and a good road out would help the settlers as regards freight on goods and produce from and to Wellington. If what I have suggested is carried out, it would dispense with the

necessity 1 of river embankments for over 16 miles, it would also make a 1 bridge a necessity. The cost of this would easily be met with the betterment, principle, applied to the properties, that would undoubtedly be worth considerably more, with the risk of loss of grass, crops and stock reduced to a minimum.— l am, etc., R. G. Knight . V&i— At present the River Hunter is in port with coal for Palmerston North Gas Works. 'Whefl the river improvements I have called attention ta are carried out, a vessel like that will with ease I believe cross the bar to Fox too, and coal will be placed in Palmerßton at considerably less coat. Wellington, June sth, 1895.