ENGLISH STORM DISASTER

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 3

ENGLISH STORM DISASTER

THE LONDON FLOODS (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Jan. 9. Lord Dcshorongh (Chairman of the Thames Conserving Board) expresses the opinion that the Hoods are not due to Thames waters but to a tidal l>ore rushing from the North Sea. Before Christmas Day, the Thames How rose from 4500 to nine thousand million gallons. This would cause the biggest llood of many years if Xmas snows had thawed quickly. Fortunately the frost held till the river redeolined to 4500. Saturday’s was the highest tide ever known in the Thames. The only Way to cheek the inflow of such tides as the adoption of a scheme he recommended twenty years ago for a barrage in the river from Tilbury to Gravesend. This would produce a reach of water from Tilbury to Teddington, always clean, deep and usable for the whole length.

FLOOD RELIEF LONDON. Jan. 9. The Lord Mayor of London conferred with the Mayors of all the allotted districts and decided lo co-opera-tive relief fund, to which cash donations are pouring in as well as large quantities of bedding and clothing. The Bishop of London speaking at Boiirnemuth said if the dimsal. lolly wickedness and danger of basement dwellings was shown by their being swept away the calamity lias not been in vain.