FLOOD CONTROL NEED
APPEALS BY SETTLERS
FURTHER EAST COAST SLIPS (0.C.) GISBORNE, this day. After discussing flood protection proposals, the Cook County Council decided to invite the chairman of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control
Council to visit the district for the purpose of making proposals which would give the district protection from flood waters.
The decision followed the hearing of requests from settlers for assistance in protecting their own areas. WhiJe the council expressed sympathy with the settlers in their plight, members did not wish to make commitments which might prove detrimental to others. They behowever, that proposals for limited areas should be included in scheme covering the whole ?? lan d in the district. heavy rain has fallen, the Wairoa area experiencing a verv heavy downpour, with 3.80 in in 24 hours, including over 2in in two hours,7bn nging the total for March
Further slips have occurred on the railway south of Wairoa and the line was blocked for some hours at Raupunga. Roads south of Wairoa are also giving trouble and the detour round the Devil's Elbow, which was bl °cked last week > is again impassable. The Waikaremoana-Rotorua road remains blocked.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 66, 18 March 1944, Page 6
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