FLOODS IN LOWER WAIKATO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 2

FLOODS IN LOWER WAIKATO

DAMAGE BY SILTING SETTLERS WANT REDE? (Special to THE 812<1 HUX'TLV, Satnnfc The- serious position tliat has through the silting up of the " T | reaches of the Waikato Rivehjj* 3 I wi«l- M.r. ad 11. ods. was d:sc»»e4B, I delegates from Ohinewai. • | rlri ™ S Sr B Mw I M.l*. for liaglnn. was pr««» I It was stated that as -jl I of certain farms is use 1 !^ 11 *h t* I greater part of the year ihro 1 The following resolution unanimously, and ha P de< * , hc p3* Martin for transmission to Minister: “That we. farming the lands along *n Itiv.-r b.-tw -en Ohinewai ana and throughout the lake resj n n , adjoins view with alarm '"E -- silting of the river with P» & Tli is has been more notice* , oxter: - on v. rks have S* out at Arapuni and tiers are finding that the | are covering more °f tn i- vUland each year, and reMie v igorous steps are tak t be f- v • the pumice sand by dretU pi I channel or otherwise. rWt a^ ! most valuable land " lU 'U,ad»rel ' covered with water and . less. It is realised t.i» o{ I matter beyond the V p j e 10 | settlers and business P ; with, and, as it affects tn a ; less degree the who.e be jjrosf; ! district, it might rtason. M=i- ; before the Governmen ■ .anostengineering staff at Ms ; a request that th « ; horoughly gone ' nt A„ ir -d." [if possible, can be ob C'.[ntfd > A committee ' | district members of P d<lßn it-- ** „ j conference, at which * 1 -üb» asi * 1 I I will be formulated for - / ; tlio Government.