THE ANDERSON SAY AREA

Evening Star, Issue 18257, 23 April 1923, Page 4

THE ANDERSON SAY AREA

TAIHUi FIAT FtOQBED. BRANCH STREETS BECOME CANALS. The flat district between tho Anderson Bay road and Ocean Beach bore as much resemblance to Venice this morning as it is ever likely to have. Tainui had the appearance of one large, clay-colored lake, the houses, dotted hero and there, standing up in it like islands, Tho Chinamen s gardens, on the far side of the flat, were first to be submerged yesterday afternoon. Along Royal crescent, from the Musselburgh School to Fergusson street, the water was waist-deep at 3 o clock this morning; Princrs street was described as “ kuce-dcep.” T.ne Queen’s drive was in a state of flood, telegraph posts standing np from it like tho marks of a channel. There were three or four inches of water in many of the houses, and a number of families in this and neighboring streets, after <a night of uncommon anxiety and discomfort, were glad to vacate them in the early morning for the shelter ot any friends’ or -relatives! dwellings able to receive thorn. Evacuation was not easy, since it depended on the 'Services _ for transit of such early vehicles as might pass, and in the state which the thoroughfares presented tho number of thoco was small. One fugitive described tho waters as being up to tho oven door and kneedeop outside the back door. The tram service to Anderson Bay was not interrupted. Water lay deep over half tho road yesterday afternoon about tho middle of Musselburgh Rise, but by this morning it had cleared away, though a couple of sections were deep under water. Melbourne and M‘Bride_ streets were both under water this morning, and, from tho Anderson Bay car, Cargill road had the appearance of a canal. The road in front of the Caledonian Ground was mostlv under water. The Kensington School was an island, and Kensington as a suburb suffered badly from the inundation, many families having to leave their houses.