WAIMASARIRI'S COURSE.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16851, 3 June 1920, Page 8

WAIMASARIRI'S COURSE.

PAELIAMB2TTAEIi3ft7S . . INTERESTED. Members of the Canterbury Parliamentary Committee yesterday decided to obtain a first-hand knowledge of th» Waimakariri river's lower course, and see if the river was a possible iiienr.ee to the city of Christehur:h and the districts surrounding. This decision was the outcome of the following lei tar, read by Mr J). Jones, M.I 1 ., from the chairman of the Eyre County Council: "'lt is the wish of the Eyre County Council that you should bring the notica of members of Parliament tho serious problem of tho danger of the Waimakariri. A Commission has been considering this'question for some time,"and I understand that a report will be presented to Parliament next session, and that it will suggest what legislation is needed to deal with the question. To obtain a thorouih gras;> cf the difficulties to Txr met- with, it is asked that you should invite members to visit the duiper zone, and meet members cf the County Count*'l there.'! Mr 7>. G. Sullivan, M.P., said that, monitors cf Parliament, as well as the people oi' Cbristchureh, should make themselves interested in this matter. Erosion of the river's banks was going on ran idly, and during past centuries the Waimakariri's bed was abovo the levei of the plains, and the river had found a new channel. ?.Ir A. I>. IXbscn, the city surveyor, had told him thnt from the time his father. Mr E. D>obson, had taken levels of the rivar to the present time when he took the level?, the bed of the river at the Empire bridge, near Belfast, had risen about seven feet. _ If the river ever made a big break from its course, ,os it had done in tho past t it would Ih> a serious thing for 'Christ-church, which was one cf the lowest-lying parts of the flat country. Mr isitt: It would Iks another Louth for us. It was decided to make an inspeetinn of the river, meeting members of the Eyre County Council and others interested at tN. Frnr;--, rif ar ]j c .[. fast, on Tuesday, June 12th, at 1 !