DAMAGE ABOUT £25,000

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 10

DAMAGE ABOUT £25,000

Banks Peninsula Floods SITUATION EASIER By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, May 8. To-day Little River appeared to have escaped the prospect of further Hooding. The rain has eased off and Lake Forsyth, which rose threateningly yesterday and last night, has subsided. Al the same time, the danger , has by no means passed. Service cars cannot get through, as there is twelve feet of water on the road near Caton’s Bay, but the railway service has been resumed. The total flood damage at Banks Peninsula is estimated at £25.000, including the cost of new bridges, new culverts, repairs to roads and fences, and damage to farms which have been stripped of fertile soil. In addition, there is railway damage. Local bodies are faced with a serious problem in restoring communication, and will need to raise a large sum of money promptly. Though the railway service to Little River was resumed to-day, it will be some days before the service is running more or less to time-table. A breakdown train and an extra large gang of men is now stationed at Little River and is clearing the line of tons of debris and putting down a temporary track where necessary. Six feet of silt and stones covered the tracks at Little River station, and temporary rails have been laid over this stretch. "We are faced witli a long and costly job,” said a railway official this morning, when asked for an estimate of the probable cost of the flood damage to the line.