FLOOD CONTROL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3887, 22 December 1928, Page 2

FLOOD CONTROL.

MANAWATU-OROUA SCHEME. LEVIN BOROUGH NOT TO PARTICIPATE. No action is to be taken by the Levin Borough Council in support of the Manawatu-Oroua River Board’s modified scheme for flood control, states the Chronicle. A letter was received by the council, on Monday evening, from the board enclosing the engineer’s report on the cost of the scheme, which relates to the Manawatu and Oroua Rivers. The board also invited the council to appoint representatives to attend a conference of local bodies interested, to be held at Palmerston North on .January 24th, the object of which is to send a deputation to urge the Government to subsidise the scheme.

The Mayor (Mr. Hobson) stated that, some time ago, a deputation waited on the council which passed a resolution that the river control scheme then proposed would be of no benefit to Levin. He gave evidence to that effect before the commission that investigated the subject. He did not .think it would be advisable for the council to be represented at the forthcoming conference. It should object to being included in the proposed district. On .the motion of Cr. Hutchings, seconded by the Mayor, it was resolved that the board be written to and informed that the council is not interested in the scheme and therefore does not propose to send delegates to the conference, and that it objects to being cited as a party to the scheme.