ISLAND BAY'S FLOODS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1473, 28 June 1912, Page 6

ISLAND BAY'S FLOODS.

CITY-COUNCIL APPROACHED. ' k

A deputation of Island Bay residents waited on the City Council last night re" peering tho storm-water culvert at Island Bay, the condition of which channel is baid to bo o cause of the aunnal flooding I Cl M° m r. Of c tho p, fln ]nnd '» lho su burb. S meeting of Island u oy lmi[o t , * nous night it .had bwn decided to protest to tlie council about, tho manner in which tho work m connection with tho culvert' had been carried out. They had decided vo make this protest in view of tho damngo clone by- iioods to property,, and the general inconvenience to residents It jras unfair that the allocations should b» : ' limited to a portion of tho rates collected from Island Bay, because the etonu-wator jvluch the culvert carried came from Vogeltown, Brooklyn, and Berlianiporo A- portion of the rates from tkeso sub- , urbs should be used for tho culvnvt. - fii ■ veply to representations made in 19D7,th0 council had written that it had decided to !.io the work, which would cost Jtiuo ''• and f-|»catt,ring'out.of ; wliic)i. jvould 1)9: Bpreadover threo years. The deputatloiC' that tho work, than which, the .'speaker said, uono about tlie city was : more pressing, should ha' completed with'.' out- further delays. . Unless something ..was done, tho progress of the suburb would bo much retarded. ■■,''y,--/~---t i >. ' \ Mr. 11. G. Hill, who said that-Lβ, had ixmn • residing ot tlie Bay for (welve; mouths, stated that a week ago his ground , ' had been flooded, whereupon, lie had had'to remove his poultry, and carry two" ladies from his house to the roadway. ■"■;■ Councillor.Frost asked if t.ho members of tho deputation thcught that it would' bo advisable to spend a greater proportion/ of tho money allotted to Island Bay ea : Uw drain. , . , . . ........

[ I'ho Jliiyor said that considerable improroments had been made at the. Bay in recent years. Tho position of the City Council was that, they had only a limited revenue, and had to out their coat according, tq. their cloth. Island Bay had got its full ehare of expenditure. Tho city enuinecr had investigate tho trouble, and was apprised of the whole position. Hia Worship said that, he could not premise that the work would be completed this year. .£4OOO had already been spent on it. Hie Worship assured tho deputation that. their request would receive the-'scriout consideration of tho council. "■', ■ Subsequently tho subject matter-of tho"--ropiwontations was referred to the ■ Finance Committee. ... ■y-^'-i