FLOOD PREVENTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12705, 7 March 1912, Page 2

FLOOD PREVENTION.

,;^(To u the Editor ot -the. Herald.) „ • ., ". Su;/-^The^Riyef vßoar^ petitipn,"Vigned , attested, ■witnessed, and all ihe *rest of it, is now on , its.^ way to Wellington.. If the Min"ister','on Tilqairy, considers, ihti matter of sufficient imflbvtajiee, as.no doubt he willy the.^Ypee'dure* wilt pi'obably take .the. fp^m, of ' an inquiry. |ief pre Mr Bartbftrlp ! d'ete'"rriune* ths^bmmd&ries of the $s|rict,and the diff^ren^sohedules. of rating on a n y as to liability /to heavyfti6^s*^|wfti(t %)ftd/ PV only "dftmage^#;*|^^ -use, the term.''' After :* th/is. fjxe^ on;, election foe liel<*. | should irnaljlln^i that/ the. -^t 'Idvfcr- pt &;Jsj(fr7stfVs w6ul(J be t,*Q gbt *the|)e?t'phg^ hitn. with jup nec^s^'y'-na-rticula^ iiM, asl< -for ' schem^j'^w^tly ''fIV: estimate br the --costr^.[Mr:'C.lark> now, 'p'ro- ' poses,' : l vi|i^erdtari<l',' that'lie 'and Mr Wm. JJelsbn'^iiiid -■niiyorie el|e* wrhp* will join - 'tnem 1 /' -should subscribe . eljbugli! c tfc' pay for ; thi&' , jrep'ortf at v once,' „nd;'il\b\i, v '*i| ; it seefas/cbmpre^ cd'mnTj^? l-eetiSef and iikjely, *t"q ' je-jd "ia some'^^ "f'^ali'ty ' i*iv the 'mKnefl, i&e&K^a,- bba*rd Vp|_dff^d tocarry 1 it ' but, : Sir. ""CJlaifk nan^ af^ftid. tfc art' a, "hoard* elected wit*n; rib sishe'nib m view wjll only." fritter <v\vay -tffiW aitrl money .^s'. 'd/iv li^Xg pf apy real service- "ft seem§^;[mfi. tl)9>V "| Mk Clark pl"»tai*n*i '"lis report as "h^ px-oposes wlule the Government machinery is slowly working .nothing. will bevlost and ■^n«aK i may be r ; gained; ■■!" "I"im.e. wil' '"be gained ■hr the first place." Mr Clark' and Mr Nelson might\ be expected '/to know .Pr "Ver</.' soon find out exactly to "put their hands on -the. best rri&n,..and althouch (there would be nothing to pfeyent Vq.%. ■board getting- -a further report i| -H/ *Ud' sired to' do sd," the p^abilitVeJ' ■ arc- that", - given a scheme by.aucti a jnal*i (i|s-'they would get,; at a cdstithat pould bebbrne by the. river district^ a. lban cpuld bo raised and -work started.- almost at once, I have been unable so- far to megt \siit\ R\\y o^e willing, tp. subscyib^ to suoh a fiM)d, tuit perhap*! "f Mr Nelson a'ocepta 'Mr p"ai;l";'s pffei: '/tojbin fbyc'es m th"n 'matter, the hundi'-ld guin^ "may h$ sufliQient for the pur"pQße.-^'_ am, 'eie, , JOHN TGMBLESON.