OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9176, 20 June 1908, Page 8

OROUA COUNTY COUNCIL.

yr*: v, ■■' A special yestrer-i' day to deferring the of rivers to aKfcyAp’: , , A copy of ;l£e‘-sesster Lypm ytiie v ’ Minister'of Lands .-.pa , jPnad, the conotasfth* r C I think it is be.UQr. ■» t mate to the • '*- • ’eminent ie'-goln^tj^ , V Commission,- vyith'piit^ ; iiihltafcmn , upon . its - powers,‘‘i and, ;*; -tjfipse ,' ; who : desire anything - _i^;,A&tnr'e ;,pf limitation must ■ appear. '.before'v' phe . Commission itself • and ;"s^t,o < their : case.” : , •:•>,»:/■ In the' J&lf&wed, ■ the Chairman lpw:~ bank of the Orpua 'fiVeT -■ab - oiV:- : Jia3f ■ a mile above over which the big flood, ‘ was ' stated i to have ponied,'. Btr«ato ; j nearly a mi!6 Widia : ynafin ; feet deep, the Oroha-, ooxinty Wptild; not have much interest in .votive matter. If the course at that a disaster colonial ihVita. n'agnitiide. The Council bad, no ;pn to private £land ‘ • -and. tective work otherwise- k cient work would the place refertod ; tpj.d; :; •£ ’v .t'.' .Or. ■* of an instance ’• river changing 1 -.■ •of the river .straction to the rosh’ : - any deviation The Chairman asked : ’ was not a fact that the bedfl ; „. rivers were rising consequently; there was a danger of an overflow. and ones the overflow took place* they knew how quickly the fat land melted away. The case of a rivet changing its course had ocorarred in Hawke!s Bay. "-j Cr. Reid mentioned a river in the Wairarspa that had changed its 1 course. Cr.r Vincent mentioned the damage done to land by the Pohangina. Cr. Pearce said Mr Hocking had protected the, river bank nest his section near Colytou, but his neigh- . hours above were ’not doing*, prOy tective work, and the bank on- thO/ east side was being encroached ,'Oh,. The effect of a big flood probably: would be that the protective workconstructed by Mr Hocking would be destroyed He thought in a case of the kind river protective work should bo compulsory. % - It was resolved, on the motion of &Pr. Pearce, seconded by Or. Vin|Sfcfceut, that this Council approve of a * iiCjral Commission in terms of the h.ttCkr from the Minister of. Lauds, j.- The motion was passed on the casting vote cf the chairman.