RIVER DIVERSION.
BIG SCHEME IX HAWKE'S BAY. FACILITY FOR* LEGISLATION. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, this day. Advice has been received at Napier that the Government is prepared to agree to the necessary legislation for the total diversion of the Tutaekuri River, the flooding of which since the earthquake has been responsible for extensive silting of the inner harbour. It is also stated that the Government is prepared to share equally with the Hawke's Bay Rivers Board in meeting the cost of the work of diversion over and above the Unemployment Board's contribution.
It is intended to use relief labour for the creation of the diversion, which comprises the development into a full river course of an overflow channel which is at present used as a short cut to the sea in times of flood.
The diversion, besides removing the root cause of silting in the inner harbour, will render many hundreds of i acres of land immune from flood.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 264, 7 November 1932, Page 5
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