MANAWATU-OROUA RIVER BOARD.
COUNCIL FAVOURS CONSTITUTION. 4 * 1 WERFITOW"CHANNEL IMPERATIVE. «• The vagaries of the Manawa'tu river along its tortuou.- course, has caused settlers a good deal of thought but up t.o the present .no comprehensive scheme has been adopted to deal with the flood waters which spread over thousands of acres of fertile kind during flood time, rendering it unproductive to the district and state. A Royal
Commission was set up some years ago and wen: ex ban-lively into the question and recommended two cuts to deal with the one via' Himatangi and the other lower dowu,.,oommciicing s IrommWalden's ’corner and coming out'af'Nye’s mill aiid''ccA^in.ii*idg w lhrqugli!' pa. thus giving the congested. waters a more direct outflow, lit order to protect their binds higher Up a big private hanking scheme has been commenced at Makerua which, when completed, it is considered will divert the flood-waters on to other lands. A Board, is in the process of formation 'to.-.d&d comprehensively with iheiiloud waters of;the Manawatu and Oroua rivers.
At .last night’s Council meeting the Mayor...snaid a meeting of delegates. representative of the proposed ManawatUrOrona River Board district and (he Foxton Harbour Board was held yesterday to ascertain if the Harbour Board was opposed to the formation,.' of If Board or objected to the cutting of jin overfly .channel. .T]\e ,j r Lloard he said, raised, no s objection, provided the channel did not in any way prejudice thg„port,,of Foxton. The Mayor moved a.jpotion endorsing the proposal as, he said, an overflow channel from Walden’s corner to come out; at Nve’s mill would continue, in the. . .present channel from there on, and would mean the recovering of thousands of acres from inundation by floods. The proposed cut was of the utmost importance to Foxton,. which depended for its prosperity on the productivity of fhe ; land around it. It was decided that the Council endorse the proposals,,, Crs. Bryant and Thompson voted against the motion. i
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2440, 13 June 1922, Page 2
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323MANAWATU-OROUA RIVER BOARD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2440, 13 June 1922, Page 2
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