APPLEBY BRIDGE
(To The Editor) Sir, —I support Mr J. Wyllie’s idea. I have often been tempted to say or give some advice in the. matter of the water at Appleby. Water must have its course. If blocked one way, it will soon find another. If the Motueka side is filled up to stop all water, it will have to have some way of freeing the back water to get away, as soon as the river subsides. This is an easy job. When all this low land is full of water, surely the river will go to the next low level, that is under the bridge. It won’t stop when there is a course. It is sure to cause some delay on the Appleby side, when the first flood is in progress as at present through the usual overflow from above. There will have to be a strong groin some 10 or 15 chains above the bridge. This will need wood or railway iron driven with some other entanglement and to be in the right place, so as not to turn the main current too far on the other side of the bridge.—l am, etc., J. DELANY. 17th September.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 September 1936, Page 7
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