Relief work on Styx

Press, 28 November 1977, Page 13

Relief work on Styx

Subsidy for flood relief work on the Styx River and Horners Drain has been delayed a year, but the Christchurch Drainage Board will go ahead with interim relief measures in the lower Styx and Marshland district. A subsidy application for the works — totalling SI.IM — has been held over by the National Water and Soil Conservation Authority until next year. In the meantime howerver, the Drainage Board plans to begin relief works. There are completion of and improvements to, pumping stations, a $5OOO relief for Spencers Drain, minor repairs and improvements to

stopbanks upstream of Spencerville Road, and stopbank building in local areas — on the condition that residents meet half of a stipulated cost. Refugee curb? The Australian Immigration Minister (Mr Michael MacKellar) has foreshadowed that Australia would take a tougher attitude towards refugees from Indo-China. He said that no country could afford to give the impression that any group of people arriving on its shores would be allowed to enter and remain. “Over the past two years more than 3000 people have arrived in Australia without prior authority to enter,” he stated. All of them were from East Timor, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.