Correspondence.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8331, 6 April 1889, Page 2

Correspondence.

Tlie Editor docs nob hold hlmseU responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents. DIVERSION. of~TEE TUTAEKURI. Suj,— Mr Koohfqrtin his letter to-day tries to: be' funny. He thinks the idea of : mvorting the" TutaekurK" very takine ", , and that "a pleasant cool river" flowing > ; past, the town boundary would-be " very'i pice," &p.: In saying so, whether tanat-;f : . / ingly or -.otherwise,, he hits upon, the .. truth. : The idea.is certainly « feldne," - •»; A pleasant, cool;'fresh water river instead ' - of a stagnant, open, surface. ditoh,.wouldV- V.. be both nice and benelicialt and that the .-'"-. .^ scheme :fo'r haying such a' valuable booh -': '-* -> : for the town ,is practicable; ia patent to; '-"'' '& ? every, sensible person in the bommurlftyi*--"^- >•; Mr Kochfort, of course,;except«d. -In Ws^- ; ' : ; letter of to;day,' as ;in formefspnes/vKe '•"'-, .makes' aoite ektr>drdinarfe : «'fiii&.-"'- i Ha- ■' -->i4^:

•dale bridge to be "so and so," and in the | proposed new channel Bin in thu milo at How water, and 3Jin in the mile at high ;T»ater. Healsofindsthatthesewapewoulil I be "driven up" three and a-half hours "each tide.* Now is not this extraordinary ? 'How can the sewage bo "driven up" I "when there is a fall seaward, according to I iliis own showing, of 3Jin per mile at high I 'water ? I wonder how he proposes to I •counteract the law of gravitation to fit in I •with this delightful theory of his, as 'no less powerful instrument than " Moses' I 'Itod," of Biblical history, or the " Shone I ■ ejector," could possibly work ouf; such an I 1 unheard-of phenomenon ! But, sir, I have I ' been making some " finds " to-day myself, I • and amongst them 1 find Mr Roehfort's ' ngnres as to the fall in the river not correct. I If they are correct, then a plan signed by I liimself showing river levels, aud to be I . seen at the Survey Office, is erroneous. In that plan he shows the river level at Meanee bridge to be 4ft lljin higher than low water in the lagoon at the I Recreation Ground, and at hHi water I 2/t llin. This would give a fall in the nver in the new channel of I4in at lowwater, and B|in at high water, about I twice the full stated in his letter stil] I more increasing the difficulty of the sewage being driven back. I suppose we had better leave it to Mr Roohfort to I say whether his plan in the Survey Office I ■ or his figures to-day, are the most correct' or whether any importance can be attached to either; I also find that Mr Kochfort, in working am the simple proWem of distance between the sewer oetlet and the Spit, h not over accurate. Jie gives the distance as 1| miles, whereas (he distance between the outlet and the ~ ""dge iovw the harbor is only about 1 mile and 10 tnains. However, this diaSB L \? ot mnch; p° ssibl y he has ttßKen tv. 3 distance from the anchorage 'Sir, •< or from a point further out. The iProp'jsal, j may &tatß) Jn conßeotion w ; th « tt< j diverting of the river, is to extend the Uewer to the point beyond the Taradaleroad. The distance there to the port would only be about three-quarters of a mile, thus again disturbing his calculations by about one mile. lam somewhat at a loss to know the meaning of Mr Rochfort's parable about "neighbors' sections" and storm- water drainage. If the propasal to drain the storm-water of thetown into a river is " the most extraordinary" he has ever heard of> bis • opmion on a question of the kind must be exceedingly valuable.— l am, &c, . . W. Black. -Napier, sth April, 18S9.