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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7849, 15 June 1905, Page 4

HAVE STOOD A PUBUCTEST TEAS 81. TEAS^^

1 The Wanganui Harbour Board has been asked to expend £250 in demonstrating whether iJr Field's scheme for improving the navigation of the river as likely to prove effectual or not. The Wanganui Herald, with a view o{ testing public feeling in thd matter, is taking a plebiscite, and it published a description of MiField's proposal, Mr Field maintains that no successful improvement of the channel can bo carried out without contracting it and filling up to some extent the superfluous or vagrant channels, hiis contention bieing that a greater scour will result and a narrower and deej>er channel will immensely increase the effectiveness of the tidal compartment and consequently the depth of the bar. Mr Field proposes to! bring; about this result by erecting cross fences of wire-netting and stakes upon the bed of the river between what should be the main channel and the shore. These fences, it is claimed, will cause the debris and silt to accumulate so as to raise the riverbed to any desired height. So far as drodging is concerned, it is claimed Unit the i roposed fences will materially aid in retaining the soil deposited in the side channels by the drelge. A large number of residents of Masterton were put to inconvenience on Tuesday morning owing to Lhe water in their 'taps being frozen. One business man complained that he was not able to wash himself until he got down to his oiiice-r