CABBAGE TREES IN MANAWATU RIVER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40020, 7 November 1929, Page 2

CABBAGE TREES IN MANAWATU RIVER.

COMPLAINT DISCUSSED BY MAICERUA DRAINAGE BOARD.

At the Make run Drainage Board’s meeting held on Tuesday, a letter was received Groin the Public Works Department stating that frequent complaints had come to hand .from shipping companies using the port of Foxton as to the excessive number of cabbage trees that had been floating down the Manawatu River during flood periods. In one particular case, where cabbage trees were employed for protection works, 50 per cent, of these were washed awav.

One company concerned maintained that the damage recently done to one of its ship’s propeller's was caused iby one of these trees, and held that, if private owner’s were observed 'using cabbage trees for protection works, the department should receive notification.

Following an explanation by the engineer that the tliws had not broken loose from the board’s works but from individual 'efforts, the chairman moved that the department be written to, notifying that all vegetation employed by the hoard was firmly anchored, later inspected, and that no knowledge of such trees breaking loose had been recorded.