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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 133, 17 January 1916, Page 3

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Navigation Difficulties. petition of launch, sawmill Hi flaxmill owners, setting forth menace that threatened shipon tbe Waikato river, tbrougb H accumulation of sand-banks on main stream and tributaries, as in fill in our issue of last, was presented tc a of the Waikato Kiver held at Mercer on Saturday. Blr A C Tribe, manager of the Timber Company, reprethj memorialists and pointed that unless prompt steps were to keep the channel of tbe open in the upper reach s the ot boats would become Hipoasible, and such woalJ mean Hiaete? fjr the vaihus trades Hfected. At present, he said, Here waa only some 2ft 6in or 2ft Ho of water at Kangiriri and Hiurcbill iHr A G G Glasp, chairman of He board, remarked that it was Hrv natural that the people along He river expressed indignation at He way the nver was getting Hocked up, aa if trade ceased on the Hver it would mean chaos all round. ■ IreadyT he understood, Mr Hall tt, H proprietor of the All British ■hipping Company, had given notice ft the parties concerned that be Bould tot be responsible if the ftanait of cream from the tributarKs had to c;ase, and it would also ■lean that timber and coal could lot be carried on the river. The Hummer bad hardly started yet and It was accordingly certain that the later would get more shallow in Bia next two or three months, ■be Government was to blame tor lot assisting the Board and it r«s a certainity that it financial lelp was not forthcoming tbe river lould be blocked, as the Board had nly sufficient money to c?rry brough tbe present work. Be dvised that the petitioners should eek the support of the district nembers of Parliament, tbe Auckand and country Chambers of Comnerce, and of all the adjacent heal luthonties, and the Board would at inca communicate with the Minister for Marine, tbe Hon. i. McNab, asking him to come without delay to inspect the ''river, io that he could see that danger waa imminent. Mr ulass went on to say that his idea was that tbe Board shojld be replaced by a larger authority having wider rowers and a more extended area, the Commissioner of Crown Lands to be constituted the chairman ot the new body Tbe chairman's suggestion was adopted for tbe Minister of the Marine to be requested to make a personal investigation of the state ot things on tbe river, ahd Mr Tribe promise! to communicate with tbe different parties as recommended by tbe chairman