RIVER CONTROL METHODS
The planting of willows along the banks of the Hutt Kiver was criticised as playing with the control problem by Mr. James Stellin, a candidate for a seat on the Hutt River Board. He advocated the use of a three-cable walking dragline, which would clear and deepen the main channel, form stop-banks on each side, and extract gravel for sale at less cost than the present system. Such a method, he said, was successfully used in the Waimakariri River and on many American rivers. ... _..„
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1944, Page 4
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87RIVER CONTROL METHODS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 123, 26 May 1944, Page 4
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