THE FLOODS.

Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 11

THE FLOODS.

TO THE EDITOE. Sir, —Will you allow me space to draw the attention of those responsible for the work of keeping the Leith Canal in fit order to fulfil the purpose ior which it was built, as if not immediately attended to it only needs a few hours of heavy rain to cause it to overflow ? There are plenty of men looking and waiting for work. Why not get busy at once and make use of the lino weather while it lasts? I attended the very large meeting in the Albany Street School Hall last night to consider what stops should bo taken in order to redress the wrong done and the great loss sustained by the ratepayers within the flooded area at the lower part of the north cud of the city.' Among several speakers Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., member of the Otago Board and a city councillor, when speaking said that legally neither the hoard nor, the council was responsible, as the properties along the Leith had their boundary lino in the centre of the Leith,' and therefore the above-named bodies eon Id not trespass on priva te property. I would like to know who owns most of the banks of the Leith from the Union street bridge to the Harboiir' terrace bridge. .Is it not the City Council and the Otago Harbour Bogrd?, Or else, who gave them the power to construct the present canal, and why put up houses to sell and lease .the sections to their tenants if they have "not the right to do so? I with,many others cannot see why the responsibility should not fall on the above-named public bodies, but my first concern is to speed up the cleaning out of the canal, —I am, etc., E.W.I. , March 26. .. ‘V; :