HEAVY DAMAGE IN FLOODS

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23301, 10 April 1941, Page 6

HEAVY DAMAGE IN FLOODS

ESTIMATE OF £12,749 iljfc; KAIKOURA REPAIRS ' ■ Heavy damage was done t0 f°j* ; in the Kaikoura County durin*,®*. recent floods. A report from ! gineer. received at a meeting' to I?* , Kaikoura County Council, esthw* the cost ‘of repairs on main nighlpJJ. at £B2BI. and on secondary bigpiTO,, at £4468, a total of £12.749, Mr F. J. Monk, county chainM* presided at the meeting. Advic«/Wp.> received that the loan of £408,.*5 the Charwell river bridge had: authorised by the Local Goverameg | Loans Board and it was resolved W* | the amount be raised by debenture*. An application for expenses, frog the Oaro Home Guard was considewj to be the responsibility of the Detenw Department. , „ ... , The local Returned Soldiers elation wrote protesting againfl'Wtff action of the Marlborough PaWtoF Council in diverting £llsO totjgjSK provements to the Returned. Association Club in Blenh*jm.' , council resolved to Jmm , to the Marlborough PwCljlC ÜBg cil, and to add its own protest at w expenditure. The county chairraß considered that such action • affect the response in future apptof' An appeal for assistance towlW the cost of installing two wirelesS|»ig in the Kaikoura Hospital was madew Mr R. A. Wilkins, representing * Puketa Workers’ Union. The .cfHBfJ n man explained that the council to® no authority to spend money for Wwj a purpose. Members of the couh® ■ were sympathetic with the prppo®~ and personally contributed £4 R!*"* wards the cost. . «« The county- clerk advised that per cent, of rates had been paid o the due date.