CHRISTCHURCH FLOODS

Evening Star, Issue 20556, 7 August 1930, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH FLOODS

WEATHER CLEAR, WATER RECEDING TROTTING TRACK A FOOT UNDER WATER [Pwi Uwrrsn Prxss Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, August 6. The weather cleared about 4 o’clock this afternoon. The skies are now clear, and the night is frosty. The Hoods were at their worst this morning, and had begun to recede even before the weather cleared. It was feared that the tide at 3 o’clock this afternoon might back up the waters, causing more damage, hut the tide passed without any danger. The damage caused by the floods null be discoverable to-morrow when the waters will have subsided. It wd! not be calamitous, but will be considerable. The city streets in the flooded areas and elsewhere have suffered heavily from the downpour. In the country little or no trouble was experienced, except at Little River, where a few houses wore evacuated.

No service cars got through to Akaroa to-day, owing to Lake Forsyth having overflowed the road. The Main South road was flooded at one or two points, but the service cars got through to time. No announcement has yet been made about the postponement of the trotting races on Saturday, but the track today was under a foot_ of water, nd it will not be fit for racing by Saturday. The Riccarton tracks carried much surface water, but it is a good wetweather course, and will probably dryout to enable the meeting to be held next week.