WAIMAKARIRI CONTROL.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18636, 10 March 1926, Page 11

WAIMAKARIRI CONTROL.

TO THE EDITOR OP "THE PRESS." Sir —Your timely leading article this morning upon this pressing question should"serve to remind the ratepayers of Christchurch of a duty to inform themselves upon the projected scheme of the Waimakarm Trust. thanks also are due to Mr H. -«• rw«till for giving your readers tne ? Itt nf his professional knowledge. Kis dfctmnbe accepted that a river "„ be better kept under control .» wide and sweeping curves than in V ;„h+ lines al warrant for trie TrusS proplt'ed straight cut. through loifarai lands vanishes into thin IfrManv hundreds of pounds have w, went at the o!«5 Creamery corner oTcoS's Island to stop the, nver taking its natural course (instead ot burning at a right angle), which would deliver it by a sweeping curve in£ above the recently formed above White's bridge thus avoiding three Rha.ro comers within one mile. If tne rSwere given the slightest encouragement it would make a course.for rig ftflf in this direction.. At least £IO,«W would be saved, and the Wssity of- a new Empire bridge Sed An important feature of the Trnst?s' scheme, is the creation of throttles to -prevent the travel of shSgk! but others qualified to judge

think it would be better employed removing the throttles already existing, is throttled at the mouth, throttled at the railway bridge, throttled at the Creamery corner, and at least at one other point above, and still shingle comes down in millions of yards with even- big flood, and lodges between White's bridge and the sea. The opening of the throttle at the Creamery will relieve the rising riverbed along Coutts's Island, but it will release untold millions of tons of shingle which tie Trust's scheme makes no provision to carry out to sea, which should be the prime motive of any scheme. These few remarks will suffice to showhow controversial the whole subject is, and how necessary tnafc it be fully ventilated before important decisions aro made.—Yours, etc. WATCHMAN.