WONDERFUL MODELS
TASK OF IMPROVING RIVERS Down in a cellar- at Manchester University is a tray about eight yards long containing a concrete model. It is a model of part of the River Mersey, which, so sadly spoiled by industry, has a bad. habit of flooding some of Manchester’s low-lying suburbs. The Mersey and Irwell Catchment Board have asked Professor Gibson to help them. Improving rivers is only one of his interests. Students come to him from all parts of the world to study . irrigation work, especially from India. Professor Gibson has remodelled the Mersey for eight miles of its length, straightening the dangerous curves by eight by-passe&. He will report to the Board when his scheme is complete.
His next task will be with the river Dee, which also has a bad habit, that of shifting its channels, and depositing silt at a great rate. Connah’s Quay is greatly hampered in its trade for lack of proper channels for navigation on which it can depend.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2666, 6 September 1937, Page 5
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