PROTECTIVE WORK AT KAIRAKI

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28157, 21 December 1956, Page 14

PROTECTIVE WORK AT KAIRAKI

KAIAPOI BOROUGH COUNCIL DISSATISFIED “The North Canterbury Catchment Board poured thousands of pounds into Waikuku on flood protection works < in spite of its principle that it has • no authority in tidal waters. In view s of that we are justified in asking the board to do something about flood pro- i tection at the mouth ot the Kairaki river,” said the Mayor of Kaiapoi (Mr N. E. Kirk) at a meeting of the ; Kaiapoi Borough Council last evening ■ The council was discussing a letter I received from the board which said that in view of the shortage of labour i and other urgent work to be done it could not undertake flood protection work in the Kairaki reserve. ‘‘The mouth of the river at Kairaki has not been stabilised and is steadily drifting northwards,” said Mr Kirk. “If it should flood it would endanger the property of ratepayers of the borough. The board is clearly charged with flood protection, and the stopbanks are clearly there for that purpose. W’e can expect exactly the

same response as Waikuku got.” The council resolved to ask the Rangiora County Council for its support in an approach to the board. The Cure Boating Club, the premises and equipment of which were destroyed by fire earlier this year, will be permitted to erect a new boathouse at the east end of the green near Raven street in Kaiapoi, provided it conforms to certain requirements of the council and the North Canterbury Catchment Board. The council resolved to remit the building fee to the club as a grant. The board only considered the club’s application to build on the site because it constituted a transfer of site, said the Mayor (Mr N. E. Kirk). It did not like buildings inside the stopbank on the north side of the Waimakariri river.