IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14165, 16 August 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

IN AND AROUND THE CITY.

July, '25. ■Tlie City Council staff was busily eniiiaged yesttjrday cleftrine: the silt 'from 'the;-gutters' and generally cleaning Up the'streets after Saturday's flood.

Th » Maitai inei aM Jiook street stieav subsided u>n con-uleiablv dming Mvulin n'ght anl veie onK swollen AP^f'lcKu

Tli" an man irro^ fcJu Maltai liver 'r ulino to the elector station m the "Wood aiei was biokeu on Sund'i\, and pruhaM\ the sower Airangements weu> mado \e<*teiday for tne tenrpoiaiv disposal oi so^iißf In Manuka st»oot, nea.i the Biook «.tioe> sticam tlie scwei for over a chain was washed awa\. Pipes leading nito 'he sewer fiom sevetal private houses weie also broken

<Yn aron ot land between Trafalgar stioet and "Waimea stieet is btill subin eiaed, the fmpaientlj bcmg no outlot for the flood ivatois Mi Viniiin;'s <iai ige, in Hfii(]\ street, was flooded on and a boat was u>od to get about. The cais were all iomo\ed to safotv. hut eion yesterday a largo portion of the gam go was still under water. It is r*»iMitod that considerable dam«ige was done m the Maifcai Valley and that there are several bad wash-outs on the road between Shailand's creek and the town boundary. The brklgc over Pole ford, which was about 14ft above

the normal level of tlie fiver, was gashed away. The footbridge across the Maitai river near Hanby Park was swept aiway,; also a quantity of screened! gravel that was stored on the river bank near the quarry. , The little footbridge across the Brook street stream where It joins the Maitai, I near "Wainui,"' was washed away. !