OLD TUTAEKURI CHANNEL
ITS CLOSING URGED NAPIER SOUTH PROTECTION The need for urgency iu the closing of the old Tutaekuri river channel and the ever-present danger confronting the settlers in Napier South, Taradale and Meeance, was expressed by Mr J. H. Sheath upon a meeting of the Te Awa Citizens’ League. The meeting was held in St. Luke’s Hall, Napier, last night. Mr Sheath, a member of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board, said that the board had encountered enormous opposition in regard to the river diversion, but ho was glad that Te Awa had not fought it. The chairman of the board (Mr W. G. Jarvis) had been obliged to put up with a good deal of criticism, even though he had no axe to grind (Hear, hear). The public should realise just how much he had done for tho district. “I often wonder how he could sit there, at board meetings, and listen to some of the things which were said about him.” (Hear, hear).
He impressed upon his hearers the urgency of the old river bed being closed at once. Till this were done, the people of Napier South were more or less in jeopardy, as were the settlers in Meeanee and Taradale.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 8
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