REMOVING STONES FROM RIVERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 14 June 1911, Page 6

REMOVING STONES FROM RIVERS.

At New Plymouth yesterday a Vputathm representing the f'rtzroy > own Board, brought under the nolno of the Minister for Railways the fact that t'io constant removal ot stones from the Waiwakaiho river was so lowering the river-bed as to endanger the weir recently constructed by the Board and the Taranaki County Council, this weir protecting the Waikakarho traffic budge foundations from ■ } ,covir. '1 hey pointed out that the railway bridge was only a few chains higher up stream, and that what affected one bridge might affect tiro other. In the event of the weir cnl- - as the result of this lowering of th<7 river-bed, the County bridge would be imperilled. The County Council bad erected a notice board forbidding the removal of stone Iroin the i ver-beo within ail.’ yards of the weir, put the deputation represented that this distance was insufficient, "hoy suggested an amendment’of the Act—they wore not clear which Act - to iralas* tiro position more satisfuet 'i ’>’• .. i he Minister sar ! be was not familial' with the legislator, on the point; aml v■commended Mu- deputation to ha* a lias matter brought under the -,•( i .(•(> o 1 the Co in tie* Ccnforcnce l \ 1 1>>‘ (.mt it v ( oiiacil. They would see tiro impossibility of altering a general law to meet this cue specificcase. but if it were found, after discussion at the Counties’ Conference, that the distance provided was insufficient, representations could bo made to the Government.