A FLOODED SUBURB.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1472, 21 June 1912, Page 4

A FLOODED SUBURB.

®&X^H&ULLS-''6P!;.THE;.GODS3:-!; w'Keari.v'*?evefy.'--'-heavy' rainstorm whioli* ■ visits'-the''city'Sfrvcf to remind the resi-", 'dent j'-J off the'•■'low-lyini; portion* of .tha;;. inland Bav suburb that "the mills of the., ; •cods-grind I 'clowlv." That, they olfo gnud;/; exceeding sura is a small grain of COlil-ii fort to appetites which svo ravenous ior : . : <i-..fu1l meal of.settled grievances.. \\ henv the suburban resident arrives, homa into •: darkness of a winter's night dunns a bad.;. speU of 'wet weather, and finds (hat hey n-v-st wade to.reach his flcorfttfp, bo ■■ la/ unable to take a. dispassionate view of the. ; ;; Cit- Council's administrative limitations:.;in the matter of-his and his. neighbours' suburban . disabilities, and ■ demand*"/ 10-rs know whv his hopes of a ro!^: 1 lrom,<hftS wnterv npslileneo. have been to b.ing <Je : ; w fnrred."'To dial 1 question.- the. ti y since-' (Mr. W. -H.-Morion) ■ suomils. \nm/; .nns'we.r vln'eh 'may '>a f -<im»'.ed up.m-two.;,; word--"no ..money." Tlio sett emeiit. thcslorm-wntoi'.nuissiic? at. Mami Bay;t' exvdaineu Mr; Morton to a.representative.,.! ■r,f'Ti'i]:.;l)oMisiw 'yesterrtay, awaits; Jio.; :i "enmnletion of ilio.'.lna culvTi't, whsca. H :y b-iii-constriiciod'out el revenue-so niuc \;.; ; : «.'vc"ar, averaging i'or ; men! in potllement of the cnims-. ot-;lh.v,; suburb, so to speiiK.-' In "theMr. Morton.■ pointed om, .he.hi? ciilyvrt.,;. 'wis a i>mtiei-of t.nonsaiids. a? it haili'.ro;;.-be'c-in'ied-right up the volley, as !aKa% 'Dnnw Ptreel. 'A'quicker rate of prcifreji"-" could onlv b?'eeliieveii per'medium;.pU,T/■■, "liiaii That-b?ine so. all.that eouw.ibtj-, done was being done-aji the work corresncnihlig.- to l tllfl amoillllr vnlcd in il'3 coiiioralion/ rstimales iv.wr; accomnlished each" year..and tho .dak oß* Hie Hl{iiii3te.«i!.-iili)li)iU'ion of thn lsopciy' of the Island Bay residents depended upon-.v. the si» i'-f ihese instalments. Shortly ex- : pre.'scil, lli6 city engiiio-er'.s estimate of lh«*, position was tlint the. flooded rcsiden'j:.:'.-liiur-t possess their souls in patience. / •;;;