RIVER CONTROL
SOUTH ISLAND REPRESENTATION (PA) CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 27. The river boards of the South Island at a conference in Christchurch to-day decided to recommend four names to the Minister of Public Works (Mr H. T. Armstrong! to guide him in the selection cu two local body and river control authority members of the New Zealand Council set up under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act. The conference considered that at least one of the two members appointed under the local body and river control authority classification should be a South Island river board member. . The nominees are Messrs, W. Machin (Waimakariri River Trust), J. Moore (Ashburton County Council). H. W. Wilson (Taieri River Trust), and J. W. Fenton (Clutha River Board). Mr F. W. Freeman chairman of the Waimakariri River Trust, presided, and other river control authorities represented included the Taieri River Trust, the Clutha River Board, the Wairau River Board, the Ellesmere Land Drainage Board, and the Ashburton County Council.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24776, 28 November 1941, Page 6
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163RIVER CONTROL Otago Daily Times, Issue 24776, 28 November 1941, Page 6
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