OUR RIVER.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18307, 14 February 1925, Page 14

OUR RIVER.

TO THfi iDITOE OF "THE PBESS." -Sir,—Allow me through your valu-. ' able columns to draw the attention of rowers and others who take pleasure boats opt. on the Avon below. Stan-. more Bridge to the dangers that may ': befall them> especially towards dusk •and on moonlight nights. Between the <long "stretch of water from the Swan ;; Bridge to Dallington there is a large ; log stranded near mid-stream, and f uritherjjdown/ towards; Dallington . there' is aVthick branch • end ; projecting in nvid-rstream, invisible-at. high tide and some niches out at low tide, forming" a nasty snag. of these,obstructions if struck "would'rip the side.off . boirt. -In view-of the- coming Benlev ;. Regatta it would be a good thing it -some, of our river men would clear these obstructions, as no doubt a gooa many boats, my own included, will be going up and down the river to re-' ,turn in ■J.';' ,Then benzine tins innumerable keep .floating down, stream. : I counted';ai procession of five new tins going down iglteam, about three yards apart, this' vweekf. and I recently saw four tins tied together by the handles 'floating down :;in;midstream. .The bottom of the Yriver is already strewn with these tins. ,It is some those i people »whd have i ' l along' the river ; are tins being : \VfhrownJn, and ]tJie tins .are thrown in > along the. river from v Colombo street ; Bridge, downwards. ",;The river in many places past Swan j -Bridge is also choked with weeds. A ■ l ew • weeks ago the river men were iising the weed cutter, -a.petrol-driven .rbbat, cutting weeds up town.way; the ■'. consequence being that the river below ' : ]'wf now made unsightly with banks of and other river weeds. .... # have ■ a River Improvement As- , : Ainteamage Board, and a City Council, »f o§g column.);;

all' of whom claim to _have something to do>with our beautiful little rivei, with the result that I ha-ve described. The bard who wrote and ' sung about "Avon's" lazy 'flood winding siowly to the sea" wrote well,'' but'that Was a long time ago. Rowers and pleasureseekers on the river would do well to take warning from'one' who lives on the banks of our pretty little 'stream, and who knows the river well.—Yours, etC " . " ' WILD DUCK. February 13th. '