Debris on the Manawatu River

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7059, 6 November 1929, Page 8

Debris on the Manawatu River

HARMFUL TO FOXTON SHIPPING At-the Makerua Drainage Board’s meeting held yesterday, a letter was received from the Public Works Department stating that frequent complaints had come to hand from shipping companies using the port of Foxto'a as to the excessive number of cabbage trees that Had been floating down the Manawatu river during flood periods. In one particular case, where cabbage trees wore employed for protection works, 50 per cent, of these were washed away. One company concerned maintained that the damage recently done to one of irts ship’s pro-pellors was caused by one of these trees, and. held that, if private owners were observed; using cabbage trees for protection works, the department should receivo notificatisn.

Following an explanation by the engineer that the trees had-not broken loose from the board’s works but from individual efforts, the chairman moved that the department be written to, notifying that all vegetation employed by the board was firmly anchored, later inspected, and that no knowledge of such trees breaking loose had been recorded.