SLIPS AND SCOURINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 224, 20 August 1938, Page 12

SLIPS AND SCOURINGS.

EXPEDIENCE AT WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 19. Heavy rain was experienced in Wellington last night, 2.41 in. falling, mo6t of it between 11 p.m. and 1.30 a.m. Coming on top of the soaking the hills have received for some weeks past, the downpour resulted in slips, washouts, flooding, and silting to an extent beyond the experience of the younger generation of Wellington citizens.

Slips occurred in nearly every part of the city and suburbs, some of them across the tramlines. One in the Ngaio Gorge stopped early morning motor traffic. Houses in Sutherland Road, Lyall Bay, were inundated, and the floors were covered with silt to a depth of over eighteen inches. One of them has the ground washed from the piles, which are hanging to the joists. Silt, leaves, and brushwood have covered the road to the depth of many feet, and in places motor-cars are silted in—more than axle deep. The houses below w-ere also affected —not so badly, however, but water from a different source silted up a residence in Queen’s Drive. A big slip came down on the southern corner of Wakefield Park, and another on Brooklyn Road made it difficult for cars to get through. There is a large slip on a high bank in Adelaide Road, and a house in Wallace Street has been left just on the edge of a slip there. The blocking of the culverts and drains, or their inability to carry the great flood of water, was responsible for many washouts and some of the slips, and great accumulations of mud are spread inches deep over large areas pf streets all round and about the city.