SILTING OF OHINEMURI RIVER.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43085, 27 April 1907, Page 4

SILTING OF OHINEMURI RIVER.

It *is reassuring to those who are onfortunate enough, to possess land a« feobed by the flood waiters oi the o hmi> muri river to find that m so fai a* the sdting of the river is 'concerned, they-have a strong sympathiser in the person of the 'Hon. Mr MoNab. In response to the representations made to him both at Paeroa and b- the Thames deputation on Saturday he indicated- that he would take active steps to have the matter attended! to (

and their grievances redressed. It was, ha said, a subject which affected the whole of the administration, and) he would ask his hearer® to put their base before his colleague, the Minister for Marine, as forcibly, calmly,- and

deliberately as they had done to himself, when he came into the district shortly, because when they came to consider the question in Cabinet, at a very eariv time, there would be other members of the Ministry who would be a? conversant with the facts of the case as himself. They had every sympathy from him m the matter, and he hoped that in saying that he was not expressing a bald sentiment, but indicating that his action would be

equal in intensity to the depth of symoathy he felt for those settlers along the banks of the stream who, through no fault of their own, were losing the productiveness of their land. The natives bv securing from: the Government a special water supply, owin~ to pollution of the river, seemed to have received better treatment- 1 than the Europeans, and he questioned very much if they had known of the

proclamation, whether they would have acted with any greater foresight than the European settlers did. The cyanide* process had resulted in a class of ma-1 terial • being put into the river* which 1 was Carried! miles and miles. Be could give his hearers every assurance that if it was not brought’ before Cabinet by bhie .Minister for Mines he would personally bring the matter forward as a menace to the prosperity to a very large area, not only. of Crown land, but of the lands of the Country whether Crown or otherwise.