SERIOUS FLOODS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1929, Page 2

SERIOUS FLOODS

VILLAGES INUNDATED,

(British Official: AVireless)

RUGBY, November 20

There was a serious recurrence df floods in South Wales yesterday, following heavy and continuous rain throughout Monday night. Rain was still falling last night, and the position was likely to become worse. Serious damage has been caused and large areas are under water. A large portion of the railway near Neath lvas been swept away, and another railway service has been suspended owing to the flooding of a tunnel.

A landslide at Wattstown cut off the aproaches to the colleries at Tylorstown, and 1500 men are idle in consequence. Work has been stopped at the copper mines and tin works at Cwmavon, owing to floods and landslides. The dam wall of the Dufryn Lake hurst, flooding the cottages whose occupants were rescued through the bedroom windows, and at Cyffilliog, in Glamorganshire, the occupants df flooded houses were only rescued after the roofing slates were stripped off. Eighty families near Pontypridd are cut off and confined to the upper rooms of their: houses, and cottages at Caerleon and Rogerslone are in a similar plight. Landslides and floods .necessitated the abandonment of some of the houses at Cwmavon. Relief measures were immediately undertaken by the Mayor, of Swansea.