CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2350, 19 July 1886, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WAIPOUA DANGER

~ ' , (To the Editor,) Sm—l see by your, report of the last .'••• meeting'of' the Borough Council that th« »» proposed protective works On the banks i '■• of i;tho Wafpoua are again to stand over. The Ceuricil are quite aware of tho fact ; that every'-flood in the Waipoua increase! ■. •■• thedaJigc'rioproperty,and adds to the -' ; : difficulties and expense of oonf ning tk* r river to its 'present course. Still, iu tie < faeeof : thisj thy matter 1 is shelved from > •' time to time, till eventually the works •■ will have fir-be done at perhaps deuVle *vthe expertseHt would cost at present, V - Nearly everyone is aware of she varat ? » of plapting'willews with a view to eoufift-.. -;£ iiift river«;.:and streams to their prop* «» courses. Is not this season of the year • •« She proper time for planting ? If nothing & else can be done, this could, with very - ; little expense, and might prove of sr#a» %: benefit. .Last season the chance of doinf ;' this was allowed to slip away without any- . -.'. thing beipaf done. I trust you will urge .?•: thenecewityWthe,works'being.prpceeded v with at o'n'C»;t ''■'; Yours, &e. jSr RaibfTtb».

MASTIRTOU-MANGAHAO SETTLK. • /■ .". :• ; ; ';'MBNT' : , ■ •. : (T$ the Editor.) ;'• siß',—Greatr*injustice is being dene to members.-of' r 'the ilasterton-Maugahao Special Settllrtiieut Association In keeping them uuf'oNSeir land. There appears to have:been amisunderstanding betweea the Committee, Mr Ellison tho cc&tiae. tor, andMrMarohanttheOhiefSurluA, and. the Association suffers a»ordla|ly. Mr Bllison'Sent'the Committee a draft of a scheme for cutting up the block into' one hundred acre sections. The Association objected to ,the .scheme, and Mr March'ant,''aß ; ,tnspectorto the Asioeittion, amended, this plan, and submitted it to the Committee. The Committee ayproved of the amended scheme, and gave . Mr Marchant authority to instruct iio; contractor to-carry it out. The result »f tho matter was that, after waiting a considerable time, the Committee received • plan from" the contractor of the block surveyed and completed, which is stated to be .entirely different from what they authorised, through Mr Marohant, to be done. Mr Marchanfc suggested the Committee should aoespfc the nortkg»portioi of the Block as laid off and hawhe sou. them half amended; The Committee, how* } ever, passed a resolution deeliniagfcoaceepi the plan''ia».whole..'■' The position now is that numbers of forking nin who hoped to go on their land and fall this winter will be prevented. There will b* » general meeting of the member « Saturday, wlieh'the manner in whilWishe Association has been treated tyae Government will be brought to light. Yours, etc., Membm,