Sir,—lt is unfortunate that the West Taieri people caunot protect themselves from floods without causing the river to expend the destruc tion on tho North and East Taieri which it 1 would in the natural way deal to them. The great body of the waters of the river when in flood, as they formerly issued from the gorge above Outraui township, swept westward and followed tho course of Lee's creek to the Wai pori Lake. Now the flood waters dammed back by tho West Taieri embankment sweep the North and East Taieri, rendering farms subject to disastrous floods which fonnnrly seldom suf fered. No doubt this has seriously reduced the value of these farms. The suffering farmers take the matter philosophically as dispensations of Providence, but if they will tliiuk the West Taieri River Board is by no means Providence, but a body of men who interfere between us and Providence to our Berious loss.
