OHINEMURI COMMISSION.
STOPBANKS AXD DREDGING. (From Our Own Correspondent.l PAEROA, Wednesday. At the. sitting of the Waihou and Ohincmuri Rivers Commission to-day evidence was given by two experts, both of whom agreed with the recommendation of the 1910 commission that low stopbanks, combined with dredging operations, were the remedies for loss of a certain degree of navigability in the Ohinemuri River.
F. Hazard, mining engineer, expressed the opinion that the making of the Percneki cut or the dredging of the river for A mile below Paeroa would enable vessels of 4ft or sft draught to come up to the old Railway wharf at Paeroa as in the early days. Dredging and low stopbanking were required; the rest could safely be left to nature.
The chairman (Mr. H. J. H. Blow) said the Commission wanted direction in regard to the allocation of the burden of cost. If Waihi had to be relieved someone else would have to carry the load. It appeared from the evidence that witnesses were in favour of an extension of the area leviable.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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176OHINEMURI COMMISSION. Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 7
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