COAST EROSION
PROBLEM IN BRITAIN BELIEVING BILL PROPOSED (British Ofliciid Wireless.) Rcc.. noon. RUGBY, Sept. 20. One of the first measures which will he introduced on the reassembling of Parliament is the Coast Protection Bill. The president of the Board of Trade has this in hand. The bill is founded on the report- of the Royal Commission which examined tho question of coast erosion before tho war. Its main purpose is to set up ad hoc bodies representative of local authorities in whose territories encroachment by the sea is taking place. These now authorities will he enabled to concert schemes to prevent erosion over wide areas.
The hill itself will not- make provision for anv money to assist in the work, but il may lie taken as one pari of the Government's plans' for the relief o! unemployment-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 5
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138COAST EROSION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17062, 21 September 1929, Page 5
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