CANTERBURY FLOODS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 5

CANTERBURY FLOODS

WEATHER CLEARS

DAMAGE CONFINED TO SUBURBS

(By Telegraph—Press Association).

CHRISTCHURCH, August 6.

The weather cleared about 4 o’clock this afternoon. The skies are new clear, and the night is a frosty one.

Tile floods were at their worst this morning, and they had begun to recede even before the weather cleared.

It was feared that the high tide, at three o’clock this afternoon might back up the waters causing more damage, but the tide passed without danger.

The damage caused by floods will be discoverable to-morrow when waters will have subsided. It will not be calamitous, but wil be considerable. The city streets in the flooded areas, and elsewhere, have suffered heavily from the downpour. In the country, little or no trouble was experienced, except at Little River, where a few houses were evacuated, and where roads were, deeply flooded.

No service- cars got through to Akaroa to-day, owing to Lake Forsyth having overflowed the road. The .Main South Road. Aim flooded, at one or two points, but'the service cars got .through to time. : THE RACE MEETINGS--' ■

No announcement has yet been .made about the postponement of the trotting races at Addington on Saturday, bm the track to-day was under a foot of water, and it will not be fit for racing by Saturday. The Riccarton tracks carried much surface water, to-day, but it is a good wet weather course, and will probably dry out to enable the race meeting to be held there next week.

WEATHER IMPROVING

CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 7

The weather is fine to-dav and flood waters are receding in most districts, though twenty houses in Beckepham are still empty, as water there is almost as high as yesterday. Much damage has been caused by mud.