BADLY FLOODED

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 33, 16 August 1928, Page 12

BADLY FLOODED

EASTERN HUTT SETTLEMENT Tlit new railway "settlement at Eastern Hutt was in a very bad state when daylight canio this morning; individuals knew their own troubles, but it took daylight to show up the acres of water between Eandwick road and the Waiwetu Stream. Except in a few cases the flood does not seem to have risen above floor level, but many of the cottages were this morning completely surrounded' by muddy water, most df it 1 apparently from the Waiwetu Stream, whien overflowed its banks a little above the settlement. Randwiek road was impassable, being flooded by a couple of feet of water for two or three hundred yards south of the ramp. When the wind and tide were highest the Waiwetu Stream backed up from the mouth to the main road to Eastbourne, and more trouble of the same I kind is expected this afternoon when | the tide flows in again. The Hutt racecourse is to-day a shallow/ lake. I A curious slip occurred from a quarry above the Gracefleld road. A big quantity of prepared metal slid down and half buried a house nearby. Though the metal and rubbish piled high up the windows and pretty well smothered the back of the house, not a pane of glass was cracked. Further along Gracefield road a great mass of sodden eaTth and clay sprawled across the roadway, covering it with a couple of feet of sticky "porridge." It is not impassable, but it is not the sort of place ono wants to pass twice.