RIVER CONTROL
More Attention Necessary “The question of river control generally in New Zealand is rapidly becoming serious, and it is my intention to arrange for the Public Works Do partment to devote considerably more attention to these problems than has been done in the past,” said the Minister of Public Works. Hon. R. Semple, in replying to an urgent question by Mr. H. M. Christie (Government. Waipawn) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Christie asked the Minister if he would arrange for a competent public works engineer to confer with the engineers of the local bodies uoiicorned. and draw up a comprehensive report on the best method of controlling the Warpawa and Tukifiiki Rivers and estimate the cost of the necessary work. Mr. Semple said that special officers would have to be detailed for river control work, for it was apparent that more rivers would have Io be controlled. In the meantime be would instruct his officers to confer with the local bodies referred to by Mr. Christie and to assist them as much as possible in their present difficulty.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 12
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182RIVER CONTROL Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 12
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