MINISTER CHALLENGED
STATEMENTS IN NAPIER RIVER CONTROL QUESTION [ Per Pres* Association.] NAPIER, Dec." 5. A chaleinge to the Minister of Public Works, Hon. R. Semple, to debate the Hawke's Bay River Control question on a public platform and a further offer by a member of the board to donate £lOO toward a charitable object if his statement that the Pakowhai area had “not received a fair deal” was proved incorrect were highlights of the meeting of the Rivers Board. Keen resentment was voiced by board members at statements made by Mr. Semple while in Napier recently, and a letter from Mr. J. Wood, en-gineer-in-chief to the Department of Public Works expressing agreement with the board’s programme of works was read. Opposition to the views of other members of the board was expressed by Mr. H. M. Thompson, who contended that the board had not fulfilled its undertaking insofar as the granting of protection to the Pakowhai area was concerned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 82, Issue 288, 6 December 1938, Page 9
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