Man-Made Blunders Cause Floods
■ * J '.Special To “Northern Advocate”'. ® a PAEROA, This Day. ® I Speaking at Hikutaia yester- J | day, the Hon. R. Semple, Minister j g of Public Works, stated that t I flooding problems existed all over J ! New Zealand, and many of them B i were due to man-made blunders. » I Mr. Semple stated that there B I were engineers now appointed to i j study rivers that threatened to J i wash away land and farmers* i ■ homes. |j I “I do not want to overtax the i « farmers, but if we are going to j J solve this national pressing prob- B i lem we have to ask the farmer to i J contribute what he can,” said Mr. J I Semple. i 1 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmml
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Northern Advocate, 28 January 1938, Page 5
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