The Channel Reserve.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1812, 26 March 1886, Page 2

The Channel Reserve.

- - Tk the Editor of the Slumlord. Sir,— l notice ilmt the Wsi'diine Hirer Heard is calling for tendeis to “ purchase. or lease ” llndr estate, the Channel Reserve. The Hoard wi'l excuse me lor stating my bnmbla opinion, that th-y are not acting wisely if they sell it. While admitting that it hu altogether tailed to answer its ongirnl pu ■ pose, namely, to draw the whole of the liver through it. we cannot deny the (act that it haa often been very useful in »l ! «wing those occasional hood-waters a clear e wise through the hush, while the waters, otherwise, undoubtedly would have Had to find an cutlet through the neighboring properties or perhspa down the townahip. 1 quite agree with the Board to Ist it and make it a source of revenue, but to sell it means parting with the Boatd's birthright. The purchase! may at any time think fit to throw up a great wall at the opening, thus protecting himself, shutting out the flood-waters and throwing it down tha town again. It is of no use saying we have done with the floods for ever, because, al. though we have been comparatively free from them for years, it in no wsy guarantees ns from any farther freake of the river in the future. A single tree lodged in a certain position in the river above, mey alter ita course. I therefore maintain that the Board ought not to sell it, hut keep the key to the back-door in their own pocket. lam, ike, Omuowilo*!*.