A hearing into 56 resource consent applications to take more water for irrigation from the lower Waitaki catchment was adjourned yesterday with two days to run.
The Environment Canterbury (ECan) hearings panel, which has already sat in Oamaru for almost four weeks, will resume the hearing for two days on October 1 and 2 at The Homestead.
The hearing, involving three commissioners appointed by ECan, was scheduled to continue sitting today and tomorrow, but that was abandoned.
One witness for the Central South Island Fish and Game Council was not available and the panel wanted further evidence on issues raised during the hearing.
Yesterday, panel chairman Prof Peter Skelton said he would adjourn the hearing until October 1 and 2 to hear the fish and game council witness, further evidence and then summing up by ECan officers.
Applicants would then exercise their right of reply.
