SELWYN RIVER DRAINAGE.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17807, 5 July 1923, Page 6

SELWYN RIVER DRAINAGE.

1 I RIVER BOARD WANTED. J [ The question,of forming a > Jlliver Board to remedy the state, of th«| Selwyn ri.er and banks was discussed! at'a Dating of the Elleamere Couaty <[oW ] cil on Monday. * | j' Mr H. Bliss waited on the Council and asked if it would foster tlis> forI matioii of a Biver Board. The.' ftrtaeg needed taking out'and the gprsis ieI moved. Embankmerite would "bif rei quired chiefly. p ' * | The chairman "(Or. J. Cunning! am}, said that the S«lwyn rhter tuts a" tb*«t- ---| lent'little stream, butfiiad iiot/;tH»^i | the recent flood, given a greatd<tal of, trouble. ," T ' ' Mr Bliss said that the neglect < l | tfcfc j banks endangered the outlying diEJtritt. 1 Trees i)i the riyer might get aerobes and | divert .'the cottrso>oi tho stream!! -A 1 River Boa'rd would have power to'iaa** adjoining owners clear trees oiM» 'of the bed. The work of the Board'its&if < vtould 'be to construct esnbanSn|i«»is> If Sllesinere County tras fa^ourahfe'b.* \ttrtild .approach Springs, BeTwyn[ and Malvern Councils. , , 1 ;-| I, The chairman said that w alßiTer Board Were t«t up it'would take><!b.arg.a of the river from the sea to .tie BjiUrW., The County 'Engineer refertwjl uo t|J£ obstruction cauised by the brboni'm,* certain locality, on Crown/laodi - A Departmental iet>r" revived pointed out'that the tfoverninentf could not find the money to remove nfcaous weeds.' . * , The chairmen: It was cnnyrjal to plant broom seed? there. t . ' Further discussion on theVprojetjt was deferred, . . . f , *aemMH \