RIVER CONTROL
Sir, —The publicity given to two speakers to the Royal Society of New Zealand about river control in Canterbury was worthy of all the given. The accumulation of shingle in the Walmakariri, Rakaia and Rangitata rivers is frightening. Thousands upon thousands of sheep, deer and chamois are gorging the natural grasses after a hungry winter. If erosion is allowed to continue unabated, peril will visit the plains in ti e form of gigantic floods in 100 years or so. The land-hungry pioneers put the match to the hills in their lust for grazing lands; and it is up to the Government to recognise authorities’ claims for sufficient funds to check this dreaded erosion. An aquaintance who has travelled widely in West Pakistan, India and Sikkim told me that there was nothing there to compare with the erosion in the South Island mountains.—Yours, etc., R. H. WATSON. November 5, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27500, 6 November 1954, Page 3
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