Committee For Urgent Water Applications

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32164, 6 December 1969, Page 27

Committee For Urgent Water Applications

The North Canterbury Catchment Board has set up an executive water committee to deal with applications for water rights considered to be urgent At its meeting yesterday the board invoked its powers -inder Section 20 of the Water and Soil Conservation Act and Section 72 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act to establish the committee with power to act The board decided that the chairman or deputy chairman should determine whether an application for water rights should be deemed urgent The committee will comprise the chairman and deputy chairman of the water committee.

The board further decided that the committee should be a standing tribunal when so directed by the chairman of the board. All decisions of the executive water committee will be referred to the subsequent meeting of the board for confirmation. The. committee will meet next Tuesday to hear an application for grant

of right to take water by Mr A. O. Lowe, of Swannanoa, and an objection by Mr D. S. Wildman. The Board yesterday granted the Christchurch City Council rights for 20 years to take water at the rate of 600,000 gallons a day from each of the bores at Addington Park, Queen Elizabeth Park, Woodlands and Pages Road.