PHANTOM SCHEMES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 10 August 1928, Page 3

PHANTOM SCHEMES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The attempt to saddle the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board rating area with an experimental scheme costing over a quarter of a million pounds will. I hope, be fought to the “last ditch’’ by the sane members ot the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board. The chairman of the meeting (Mr. J. A. Miller) has launched some schemes during the last quarter of a century; this, his latest effort is certainly the climax. I recall to mind the intense emotion displayed by Mr. J. A. Miller, when a member of the Napier Harbour Board, when he described the “barrows full of gold’’ that were thrown into the sea (all for no purpose). Does the chairman of the Rivers Board want another repetition of waste of ratepayers’ money in the phantom river schemes that he fathers? The common-sense solution has been suggested by Messrs Smart, Maddison. Donovan and Purves—straighten out the bends at Pakowhai, and widen the Whakatu bridge, make room at all points to carry the volume of water. Common-sense is needed, instead of the waste of “barrows full of gold.’’ -1 am, etc., JOHNNY COPE. Hastings, 10/8/28.