HUTT RIVER BOARD

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 52, 24 November 1928, Page 30

HUTT RIVER BOARD

CLEARING THE WAIWETU

STREAM.

The Hutt River Board met on Thursday night, the chairman (Mr. W. T. Strfind) presiding. It was decided to ask the Public Works Department to undertake the clearing of the estuary of the Waiwetu Stream. The engineer, Mr. H. Sladden, in his report to the board, stated that the Waiwetu diversion cut had continued to develop. Excavations in the river bed for material for the approaches to the new Hutt bridge had been effectively refilled by the flood, and operations were again in progress. A complete survey, and drawings and quantities for the channel improvement from the outfall up to the Waiwetu Stream railway bridge, were being prepared. The engineer pointed out that the boom groins and the willow work in the Hutt River, near Stokes Valley, which had been adequately protected by landowners from depredations by stock, had made a good permanent protection, and that such further protection could similarly be provided if landowners would co-operate in keeping stock away when the groins and the willow work had been constructed.