MADMAN’S ACT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18355, 28 August 1929, Page 5

MADMAN’S ACT.

ATTEMPT TO FLOOD FARMS. By Tfllsgraph—Press Association. | CARTERTON, August 27. An attempt was made some time early on Sunday by some person or persons unknown, to wreck the stop- . bank guarding Ruamahanga river at a point near Mr Stuart Reid’s residence, Kaliuara. At the time l.he river was in ; high flood, running within six feet of the top of the bank. I The perpetrators cut a breach 20 feet l long and 6 feet deep in the hope that the water would do the rest and flood Mr C Elgar’s property, as well as other residents living further down the valley. Luckily the flood water had reached i its height, .and only a trickle canie I through. l-l;ul the attempt succeeded 3000 ! sheep and hundreds of head of cattb* ' belonging to Mr Elgar, as well as stock lon Mr J. O. Sutherland’s and Mrs L. I Sinclair’s farms, besides many others, | would have been destroyed also there is every probability that human life r would have been lost to. Fortunately the attempt was unsuccessful, and the matter is now in the hands of the police. Tt is understood that a detective is j making inquiries and furthu develop■ments arc likely to result.