MINIATURE LAKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 132, 6 May 1941, Page 6

MINIATURE LAKE.

MANAWATU GOLF (LLP.

A scene of desolation meets the eve when it is turned towards the eleventh tee at the Manawatu Golf Club's links at Hokowhitu. One vast expanse of water stretches from in front of this tee and extends in a straight line westward to within 50 yards of the 13th green. The young trees on the right of the 13th tee are covered and only in occasional instances can the tops be discerned. The 10th and loth greens are littered with apples and potatoes from nearby commercial gardens. Ducks aiid swans from the nearby sanctuary arc now swimming about unmolested where golfers played at the week-end. The Palmerston North Club's links in Park Road have not fared so badIv. water at the moment lying on the seventeenth fairway and green and extending over to the back of the fourteenth green. DAMAGE TO FEED.

In describing the flood in his dishtina, said that it was one of the worst trict, Mr M. Richardson, of Tiakitathey had experienced, the water having" risen so quickly, though stock losses were negligible considering the reverses at To Matai. "The visitation has come at a very awkward time," said Mr Richardson, when discussing the winter feed question. "Difficulty in feeding will be experienced by many farmers as the grass will have very little time to regain its former growth before the winter sets in in earnest." OFEER OF HELP.

A Press Association message from Wellington s'ays the New Zealand Red Cross Society has communicated with the .Mayors of Mastcrton and Palmerston North and its branches in those areas expressing sympathy -\yitli the flood sufferers and offering aid in the most necessitous cases from the Red Cross disaster relief fund established in 1931.

STOCK LOSSES IN AKITIO. (P.A.) DANNEViRKE, May 6. It is still difficult to obtain details of the flood damages in the Akitio district. Telephones are out of action. The latest reports are that it will cost many thousands of pounds to effect repairs. Land slips have occurred on farms over a widespread area, while there is silting on the flats. Somewhat ..similar conditions prevailed in the F.sk Vallev and northern Ilawke's Bay after'the flood there in 1938. The silt is up to the top of the fences where such arc standing, but settlers will not suffer the same personal inconveniences as did those in the Fsk Valley. The carcases of dead stock arc strewn everywhere. Owing to numerous washouts on the ••oad between Weber and Ponrraroa, it is estimated it will take at least six weeks to blast a new road out of the rock face.