FLOODS ENDED.
WATERS RECEDING EVERYWHERE. ESTIMATE OF DAMAGE NOT YET POSSIBLE. With the sun at last shining over the sodden countryside, and *ha flood waters rapidly subsiding, attention is turning to a survey of the position and. estimates of the damage caused. As yet, estimates of the damage are largely guess-work. A reliable authority places the dunaffe to bridges alone at £SO 000, and bridges are only one item in a long list. Tho Railway Department is unable, as yet, to even guess at what) the total repair bCI will be for the track s. On the North Line alone, there is two months’ work lor large gangs before the line is returned to ite normal state. Road orosion end slips, damage to private property and the destruction of crops, as well as the hold up to business, all go to swell the total cost, which, in North Canterbury alone, is expected by some authorities to reach £190,000.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17039, 12 May 1923, Page 1
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158FLOODS ENDED. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17039, 12 May 1923, Page 1
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