DRAINAGE ON NATHAN TERRACE.

Shannon News, 15 June 1926, Page 2

DRAINAGE ON NATHAN TERRACE.

" (Ten the Editor.)

Sir, —I noticed in the last issue ol' Uie Shannon News that 1 was incorrect in stating that Mr Hook suggested that Gardner's should pay “half the cost” ol draining water from their properly. What lie really said was “part, of tire cost.” Mr Hook is not so conversant, with facts as he has led himself to believe. There was no culvert laid under the railway when it was formed, at the point in question. It was put in some considerable time after, and was quite a small one, and was useless as far as draining the back of the station was concerned. The first time the station was extended and new siding put .in the small culvert was replaced by a larger one, which carried the water to the other the line, where it. lay between the road and the railway line, from beyond where the goods shed used to stand, right up and along pasf the old cat tie yard, as any old resident will testify, it. was only when, alter a particularly bud winter'the water reached the road in patches and made deep pot holes—that the culvert was placed under the roadway by the County Council and the water turned on to Gardner's property. Any .old resident, will remember the creek that .ran at. lire fool of the rise, on which the Albion Hotel now stands, and also knows that there was another creek nuimiug parallel and at the foot of ihe hill—now known as Newtown. The ground between the two creeks is almost a level, witli a slight grade on the left, and a' more decided one on the right, toward Newtown. The land between was drained by these two waterways. Mr Hook imagines that there was a natural waterway through Gardner’s property—which is absurd.

Gardner's property is lire highest, part ol' Nathan Terrace. Does Mr Hook not. know that water without an exception finds the lowest level. If fie can turn the water up the rise he has “hidden his light beneath a bushel” which iis unfair to fiis fellow creatures—for he would he .of much assistance—in flooded areas. Mr Hook also says “that all trace of the natural waterway has been destroyed by cultivation.” Well, Mr Editor, Gardner’s paddock has been ploughed, but there is a strip of land at the end of the paddock that 1 will take on oath has never been ploughed, would not some evidence of ‘‘his imaginary waterway” be there. There is none, because it never existed—l am, etc., AN OLDER RESIDENT THAN MR HOOK. Shannon. .Tune 7.