FLOOD NUISANCE.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 10

FLOOD NUISANCE.

DEPUTATION TO PRIMP MINISTER. (?*??« tSSC>OI*TI9« 3Uto^4M,} WELLINGTON, November 8. "We ptwi ? t.h&Vo conditiensof that kind refiurritjg. The thing will hare to be-qlearetj jup," declared Mr Coates, in assuring a deputation of erp from Moera settlement, Lowm|, HHtt, thpt immediate eleps trotyid fje taken in an ■ fcndwYqju' tQ ai/ip(t|i sance caused by storm water age Hooding, : - M ' Mr . T. M. WilfOrd sgfd there were 353 lipuses jp tlie $ properties had beeq seriaqsly i by the repent floods. Mr R. T. Cl&rk said there had bfcen. eight deaths in one street, implying: that they wore due to the overflew ef sewage. Mr Coates skid it was-a fair thing to niako a-complaint when, such thinga occurred, causing Mr Clark to add that he had only heard of the matter. He thought th<? deaths could be traced t° dinhtheria and lung trouble. Mr Coateq made it clear that the position would be attended to. tynd advised those whfl had sjifFered !r>ss by damage to apply to the TTnder-Secrnv tarv for Lands with regard to corapen-1 sation.