NO DAMAGE IN CITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 8

NO DAMAGE IN CITY

MINOR SLIPS AND FALLS

■.With the exception of minor flooding caused by blocked sumps, the City escaped lightly, considering the heavy rainfall.

Casual water lay on the aerodrome early this morning, but was not sufficient to have caused taking off or landing troubles, and had all disappeared later in the morning.

Small falls of rock and clay from faces loosened by the last heavy rain occurred in Karori and Kelburn, but there was no serious damage. The Karori stream rose to a higher level than normal but not nearly to ;he extent of previous floods and it was able to get through the bottle-neck caused by the small culvert over *;he main road near the tram termii.us without backing up widely in the neighbourhood.

There was flooding on Queen's Drive, Lyall Bay, where the house of Mr. C. R. Dunce on the hillside was undermined and overturned by the bad floods a few weeks ago. The water, as on that occasion, came down from qarlton and Sutherland Roads, but not nearly to the same extent. It was pouring down a chute into the washed out-gully strongly, however, and houses

south of the gully had water running under them this morning. Sand washed from the hillside below Mr. Dunce's property reached as far down Queen's Drive as Rua Street. It was heaped up by a bulldozer, and then taken away in lorries. Water was still standing under houses in Queen's Drive at midday.

A slip spread well over the road at Houghton Bay, but its removal was undertaken at once.