THE TAIERI FLOODS.
(To the Editor of the Mofxt Ida Chronicle.) Bir,~—Your correspondent §is so in : accurate in bis statements as even to make Mi\ J. T. Thomson Engineer-in-Cnief of the Province. His misquotations from that gentlemim's report on the flooding of the Taieri are equally incorrect. The main points need only to be alluded to. The report of .the Above gentleman does not attribute the floods to the tailings, but to the heavy rainfall that occasionally takes place. The tailings are not even said to reach the Taieri ;■ and further, the author of the report positively denied, before the Committee' of the Provincial Council, that the tailings could yet have any effect on raising the floods in the Taieri Plain. The report does not recommend that the Taieri should be dammed at the.outlet of the Maniototo Lake, but shows such a measure to be of no use. Ultimate effects; of ground sluicing, it is true, are prognosticated, but-at present the most comminuted det.iius alone is stated, to reach the Taieri Plain. A n actual analysis is given of the ratio, and its yearly quantity calculated.—X am, &e M VINDEX.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 77, 29 July 1870, Page 3
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190THE TAIERI FLOODS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 77, 29 July 1870, Page 3
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