HUTT RIVER SHINGLE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 147, 18 March 1931, Page 6

HUTT RIVER SHINGLE

Necessity for Working Certain reaches of the Hutt River are leased to shingle companies by the Hutt River Board, who pay royalties to the board on the shingle they remove. At last night’s meeting of the board a discussion ensued on the question of the efficacy of the plants working those held that the board should have some hold over the shingle companies to see that they are working the bed of the river and thereby deepening the channel. It was considered as not to be in the interests of the board that any of the reaches should not be worked, thus allowing portions of the river to silt up. Mr. J. Mitchell said it seemed to him that there were monopolies among shingle plants o’n the river which ought to be broken up. The river was not being worked in the way or to the extent that it ought to;