WATCH ON THE THAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 475, 3 October 1928, Page 9

WATCH ON THE THAMES

SPRING TIDES FEARED REASSURING CONCLUSIONS British Official Wireless Retd. 11.40 a m. RUGBY. Tuesday The River Thames to-day was due to have its highest spring-tide level for the year, nml officials of the Port of London and of the Westminster City Council have been keeping a dose watch in ease of a repetition of the floods in which 14 people were drowned in London last January. It is stated officially, however, that to-days tide was three feet below that of January, and that no floods are feared. Apart from the fact that the paraix t at Millbank. where the water broke through in January, has been heightened ami strengthened, the combination of conditions which caused the disaster of January shows no signs of recurring. In January there had been weeks of rain, and the river was in Hood far above any previous record. The wind, after being in the southwest and piling the sea up in the chan nel. suddenly turned to the north-easi and drove it into the Thames Estuary. To-day, however, the water coming down the Thames is below the average. owing to the dry summer wind. Also it is westerly, and is blowing the sea water down and not up the estuary.