Drainage of Rivers.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4387, 18 March 1909, Page 2

Drainage of Rivers.

A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT.

Wellington, March 16. The Commission set up to investigate several important questions relating to the drainage of the Pahangina, Orua, and Manawatu Rivers has made its report. Four schemes were considered by the Commission, which recommends the cutting of a new channel for the Manawatu River, starting at Fisherman’s Point, then coming into an almost straight line for Fox ton Borough Flats to be returned to the bed of the river, which it will cross, thus cutting through the point at > Matakakapa. This scheme would reduce the distance from Foxton to the Heads by two miles, and the cost would be about £35,000,

The Commission is of opinion that the State shonld bear some portion of the cost.