PROTECTION WORK AT KAINGA
♦ MEASURES TO PREVENT EROSION Measures taken by the Waimakariri River Trust to allay the erosion at Kainga were described in the report of the engineer (Mr H. W. Harris), presented at yesterday's meeting of the trust. A request that the protection work should be done was made by a deputation of Kainga residents which waited on the trust last ihonth. Mr Harris stated that the necessary protection work was almost completed. A new method of building the mattresses and sinking them in sections had been devised and had proved most satisfactory. Drums filled with shingle ballast were used for weighting down as before. At the top end an excavation had been piade where a mattress would be putin weighted and covered, so that should erosion take place there it would be ready to fall into,place. It was not proposed to carry on any protection past this point as the bank was too far out into the riverbed. The matter of raising the embankment along this piece of frontage would have to be left over until trucks were available as the spoil would all have to be carted. The chairman (Mr F. W. Freeman) said the job was a very solid and effective one, and had been done in accordance with the promise made to the deputation last month.
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23479, 6 November 1941, Page 6
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