River Protection.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 272, 22 May 1907, Page 2

River Protection.

Tub great damage caused in this district by the river erosion is a subject oF so much importance that any successful experiment in that direction is worthy of notice. At a recent meeting of the Education Board a letter was read from the Fitzherbert East Committee, directing attention to the damage being done to the school reserve there by the vagaries of the Manawatu river. Mr G. H. Bennett, accordingly visited the locality, and reported on the question to the Board. While admitting the great danger existing so far as the reserve is concerned, Mr Bennett points out how remarkably satisfactory the work of the settlers, in that locality, in the protection of their land from this dangerous stream has been. The planting of willows had proved most efficacious where they had been in a sufficient time to take root thoroughly, and it is due to this that the school reserve has not been washed away. The Board decided to bring the matter under the notice of the Government, as they cannot spend education funds on works of the kind, but, judging from past experience, by the time the matter is attended to the reserve will have to be looked for somewhere about Foxton.