CORRESPONDENCE.
RIVER ENCROACHMENT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Having noticed in your issue of the 10th an account of the river encroachment at Otama I thought I would send you the following suggestions:—The way to stop a river from encroaching is to procure a quantity of well-grown willows, and get boxes filled with gravel just heavy enough to hold each blanch down in the water. Then get a lot of stakes put in th 6 bank, and fasten a piece of wire to the branches and then faßten to the stakes. Put the willows in close together. The common willows are the best. I may state that I know all this from experience, having property near the Oreti river. Before I purchased this section««even acres had been washed away by the river. The bank was so low that I had to erect a bank, but before the bank was erected when the river was in flood the water made straight for Oporo, and washed away from twenty to thirty chains of the railway, thus blocking the traffic. I may also state that the bank has been up for over eight years.—l am, etc. Thomas Wilson. Oporo, Jan. 13,1903.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 1136, 15 January 1903, Page 2
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