DREDGE COMPANY OWES POWER BOARD OVER £400

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1949, Page 4

DREDGE COMPANY OWES POWER BOARD OVER £400

The last account of the Grey Power Board, amounting to £458 Is -id, has not yet been paid by tne Slab Hut Creek Dredging Company, which has since ceased working, reported the secretary, Mr W. S. M'cClymont, to the monthly meeting of the board last evening. “The board will probably have to wait some months lor this amount,” added Mr McClymont. ■ . However, the board expressed its hope that dredging would continue on the West Coast when it gave support to the Westland Progress League’ request that representations be made to the Government to assist the industry. This was done on the motion of Messrs W. E. Pring and W. Clayton. Mr Clayton said that board members knew something of the value that the mining companies had been to the board. But for them, rural reticulation would not have been anything like it was to-day. He recalled that both the Barrytown dredge and the Blackwater company had loaned moneys to the board to enable it to supply them with power. Expressing his " opinion that good land should not be dredged, Mr Clayton adaed.—“lf the Mines Department, had done its job, there would have been no dredging of lirst-class land.” '