FLOOD WATERS AT GORE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 239, 27 June 1918, Page 6

FLOOD WATERS AT GORE

ACTION BY THE CITIZENS. s By Telegraph—Press Association. i Gor., .Tunc 26. s Citizens of every trade and calling, ° armed with spades and shovels, look the T law into their own hands yesterday ? afternoon and proceeded to prevent the- ] water coming through the railway cul- ? vert, damage to which was caused by ' tho last two floods at Gore. The work v was completed during the evening, and " by the morning tho Hood water had n almost disappeared from the town. A I meeting was held in the afternoon to consider what steps should be taken to, l' prevent water coming through the culvert. Up to tho present Hie liailway i 1 Department will not permit the erection " of any bank at the culvert. It. previously indicated that'it would take fore- v iblo steps id prevent any action being a taken. t At a largely attended public meeting today of business people and properly owners to discuss the question of taking steps to prevent the water coming through the railway culvert at Jacobsfowh and flooding (he town, the following resolution was passed:—"This meeting endorses the action of those citizens of Gore who yesterday assumed the responsibility of closing the opening ~ in 'the railway reserve at Jacobstown. t through which' tho flood wafers entered and overflowed the business part of the ( town, and pledges itself to eo-operate | c; with the council in bringing tbe matter r beforo the minister of liailways, and j urges the. necessity for urgent action on the part of the Department to keep tho culvert at Jacobstown closed, or. j, provided with a floodgate." ■ —_ t