FLOODED OUT

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 8

FLOODED OUT

RESIDENTS CARRIED ON MEN’S BACKS While a Dominion representative was making inquiries at- Kilbirnie yesterday nternoon a resident of • Bridge Street, Rongotai, came over to speak about the flooding in that street. He first referred to the last loan poll and said that there were enough residents in Bridge Street to have enabled the loan to be carried-, but what was the use of tarsealing footpaths when every time there was heavy rain the paths and street were absolutely under water. “To make matters worse,” proceeded the householder, ‘the council—having experience in the past and having engaged labourers to carry people in and out of their houses owing to the street being submerged, and without making improvements to the drains, which they said would be too costly—brought the storm water from Tirangi Road under private property into Bridge Street, making the flooding here worse than it was before. They talk about the apathy of the people I It is the apathy of the council which makes the people as they are.’’’ He also declared that in Salek Street, where there was little or no flooding, the council had constructed a deep drain to take away the storm water from that street, but left Bridge Street to look after itself.