RIVER WORKS CLOSING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 13

RIVER WORKS CLOSING

HAWKE’S BAY AREA EFFECT OF RAINFALL 100 MEN AFFECTED (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. "The Hawke’s Bay Rivers’ Board works will probably be closed for the next month, if not longer, as a result of heavy rain in Hawke’s Bay last week and during to-day,” said the chairman, Mr. C. Lassen, last night after discussing the matter with the board’s engineer, Mr. G. Rochfort. “We agreed that in view of the saturated condition of the ground it would be advisable to close the works temporarily,” said Mr. Lassen. Subject to the approval of the board this would be done, and would mean that about 100 men would automatically be put ofT until the resumption of normal working. The question would be dealt with at the monthly meeting of the board on Monday. In the meantime a few of the men, other than the 100 affected, would be kept on doing day work, such as wood-cutting, said Mr. Lassen. The situation as far as the board's work was concerned had been becoming worse after every rain. The paddocks were under a sea of water and the camps were so saturated that the men had had to leave them. The engineer would meet the Labour Department officials to-day to discuss the question of providing for the men out of work.

stockbreeder and pastoralist. The late Mr. Tifl'en was the fourth and youngest son of the late Mr. Frederick J. Tiffen, one of Hawke’s Bay’s early pioneers and one who drove the first mob of sheep into Hawke’s Bay from the Wairarapa, and he was a nephew of the late Mr. Henry Stokes Tiffen, who was one of the leading figures in the early public life of Hawke’s Bay and Napier. Mr. Frank L. Tiffen is survived by a widow, two sons, and two daughters, one son having died. Mr. F. A. Tiffen, Napier, is the only surviving brother.