Taieri River Trust to take over

AT yesterday’s meeting of the Western Taieri Drainage Board, the clerk reported that the Taieri River Improvement Act, 1920, provides for the dissolution of the board and the abolition of the drainage district; and for the constitution of the Taieri River Trust, which would have control of a larger district and which would carry out river protective works. The Act was to come into operation on the date fixed for the election of members of the River Trust. The election has now been fixed by the Government to take place on Tuesday next, March 1. This would

therefore be the final meeting, and the board would cease to exist at midnight on the 28th of this month. It was resolved that the workmen continue in employment until the River Trust deals with the question. The chairman took the opportunity of thanking members of the board for the assistance they had given him in carrying out his duties as chairman. All the members present endorsed the chairman’s remarks. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the Western Taieri Land Drainage Board.

it is disturbing to think that the work of months can be undone in as many days by an angry sea. Mr Hancock, however, considers that the damage would have been much greater but for the groynes, and that the beach will build up again with falling tides and quieter weather. Anyone standing on the esplanade in the height of the gale, he says, could see that the effect of the sea breaking on the groynes was to prevent surging on to the centre of the hills.