HUTT RIVER BOARD

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 11

HUTT RIVER BOARD

A meeting of the Hntt River Board was held on Thursday evening, present —Messrs H. Baldwin (chairman), W. Knight, M. W. Welch and G. Bowers. The overseer (E. Fisher) reported that work was hampered during the greater portion of the month on account of the flooded state of the river. Cutting and laying of willows on the river banks and cutting of gorse on the stop banks was in hand. All work bad been stopped in order that repairs might bo effected to the protective works, caused through the floods. In the upper river district protective works on Hooper's and on the Roman Catholic Church property had been, completed. Channel work near Stokes’ Valley creek had been completed.—Report adopted. Mr Mitchell wrote that a slip had occurred on the bank of the river near Melling on land set apart for workers’ homes. —Resolved that the matter concerns the Railway Department. An offer of material for river protective work near Silverstream from Mrs Mary J. Edwards, of Haywards, was accepted with thanks. According to a special report to the board by the overseer tho high level of the river thatj obtained for sixteen days was unprecedented since the installation of the river protective works, and consequently the severest strain the works have had to undergo took place. Considerable erosion on unprotected land in the upper reaches has occurred in several places, and some of the works have also been damaged. On Mr Speedy’s land at Belmont a chain of protective work has been scoured away at the "camp," tho bank work sustained damage, but the river has now assumed a safer course. The lower of two boom groynes put in by the Hayward Land Company has been badly damaged. Generally speaking, the practical works have stood the strain placed upon them admirably.