WAIAU RIVER EROSION
EGMONT COUNTY ATTITUDE. CHAIRMAN DEFENDS ACTION. An explanation of the Egmont County Council’s attitude towards the Waiau River erosion was made by the chairman (Mr. W. C. Green) at yesterday’s meeting of the council. He said the Opunake Harbour Board, in the long statement made by Mr. W. A. Sheat, did not give the true position of the council. The chairman said a committee had been set up and it reported that the council should not take any action in the meantime. The committee set up another committee to see if the council had authority to do anything. If any other report had been made he had not heard of it. The council had no power to deal with the matter, and he had given his casting vote to allow things to remain as they were. They were not trying to block action, but as long as he was chairman he was not going to see money spent illegally in protecting other people's property. “I am not going to be dictated to by the Opunake Harbour Board or the members of any other board,” declared the chairman, “and I am disappointed that I am held up as a man who is a stumbling block.” Cr. Farquhar said the chairman had done the right thing to safeguard the council.
Cr. Holmes said his report was that if the work involved any expenditure he could not recommend it to the council.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1934, Page 3
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