DRAIN THROUGH HUTT PARK

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 27, 29 November 1928, Page 6

DRAIN THROUGH HUTT PARK

Unless an assurance iti forthcoming from the Lower Hutt Borough Council some time to-day that it will not proceed with the construction of an open drain through portion, of the Hutt Park on Monday next as is at present proposed the Hutt Park Committee intends to apply for an interim injunction against the work being carried out. For. Jorae time the proposal to cut a drain through, the park the object of which is said to be the draining of flood waters.from the M'oera settlement has been a subject of discussion between the Lower Hutt Borough Council and the Hutt Park Committee. At Thursday night Js meeting of the committee advice was received from the Lower Hutt Borough Council that the work would be commenced on Monday next following, the Wellington Trotting Club's meeting on to-day. The committee also received letters from the Trotting Club and Waiwetu Golf Club* protesting against the proposed undertaking. The "Waiwetu Golf Club said that from their observation over a number of years until the mouth of the river was interfered with by the Hutt River Board's operations, a very small portion only of the park was subject to flooding during exceptional rain with an adverse tide and southerly wind. Since this interference, the club stated the oiitlet had silted up gradually each year, conditions becoming bad even be fore a single house was built upon the settlement to that the extra water coming fromthere would not appear, to be the. cause of the trouble Surely the obvious, thing to d«, they said, was to restore the mouth the river to its original state and note, its effect. Until this, was done the Club must < register an emphatic protest at what might prove an unnecessary interference with its fairways and a waste of public moneys. The Wellington Trotting Club said that the drain when completed would cut off" all* approaches to the park from the jailway. This would be a serious matter to the club and even more so to summer picnickers who patronised the reserve. After discussion the committee decided to movd in the direction of securing an interim injunction unless an assurance were forthcoming, that the work would not be proceeded -with, as at present proposed.