PALMERSTON NORTH FLOOD DAMAGE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 189, 8 May 1941, Page 6

PALMERSTON NORTH FLOOD DAMAGE

Sixty Houses Evacuated INSPECTION BY CABINET MINISTER (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., May 7. A survey of Hie part of the city affected by the Hood, mainly the Ilokowhitu suburb, shows that 60 houses were evacuated. City council and E.P.S, men are engaged hosing out the houses and in a general cleaning up, including the streets. Tons of wet bedding were dried last, night in the box factory’s kiln, and it is being reloaded today. Working under the E.P.S. are the Women’s War Service Auxiliary, Red Cross, the United Guild, and a number of normal peacetime women’s organizations. These women are assist Ing in caring for furniture submerged in the Hood and will carry out other spring cleaning operations. Persons not having friends assisting them are most grateful for this aid. At the invitation of Mr. Hodgeus, Mr. Wilson, Associate Minister of National Service, accompanied officials of the Treasury yesterday in a visit to the city and adjacent areas affected to ascertain if and where aid was required. The party left today to inspect the districts in the lower Manawatu, where the big flood now covers the Buckley area, near Shannon. RAILWAY SCHEDULES BACK TO NORMAL Railway schedules which were interrupted by flood damage to a bridge between Lougburu aud Linton have been restored to normal, reported tho railway authorities in Wellington last night. Trains were observing a six miles an hour speed limit over the bridge, but the lost time was being made up.

The line through the Manawatu Gorge is clear, and the express from Napier arrived in ’Wellington on time yesterday afternoon. Both Auckland expresses left Wellington on time y eeterday.