DAMAGE BY FLOODS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 7

DAMAGE BY FLOODS

NC GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY THAMES COUNCIL PERTURBED from our Omit Correspondent THAMES, Wednesday. ,A government decision which is In, n h ® ve a Very adverse effect S® n the backblock settlers of the ..ames County was received by the no™ CU at lts nieot,n S yesterday afterthe resolve of the Public ■ m k r Apartment to pay out no more Tha, 1 - ! . n respect of flood damage. iwpn,i ln ltsell is bad enough, for the ; cuuar contour of tho country makes W^ tic J llar,y susceptible to 1/oding, re rn e fa , ct that the decision is made ct ve complicates the position *®®wderably. TMa aspect of the case was the subVA stron S comment by councillors frihK as Pointed out by Cr. George ... £ * aat in coming to this decision ij-oirernment was breaking an un*‘^reemerft Ut nevertlle i ess honourable J? all sood faith, he averred, the ,l,‘ nc1 whenever there had been any f k- n. v flood which interfered with CC u SS backblock settlers, had „ n ‘ ahead and cleared the tracks at ;« • f ° n tlie understanding from the bv «, r v n .^ nt th a * it would be recouped n. ®!JP s idy for the work. Now it apjp. . that the Government was within,. f lng fr ° m this agreement and fail- ** to can-y out its share. f idW bright said that in his had EL (Ta i rua ** "here much damage CL°^f n done to the Waihi-Whanga-hl* rtAi' oad ’ he had spent over £6O of hfi A aing s me agre funds and now that *hW°K Vernmen t had done this unjust •hinf " e Wou id be unable to do anyho tJ!' ore for his ratepayers out of Oih d np funds'♦.rain 61, m< ; rr ibers spoke in the same ‘hat ,u Ur * in k that it was only fair ■he Government should pay for A J p *whieh had already been done. Cornii ' lh * r res ult is that the TapuRoad, which had several slips 3o t down through the winter, may C Jv ared * Yesterday the Coro-'-ountv! , wrote the Thames as it as * ln S them to clear the slips, ‘i»e . a Tm S only means of outlet to fan V ler s of Whenuakite and Coro- !!»« Th the ordinary course of events 'fcavn c °unty would have enitz to do something, but now are e d by the refusal of nf ti!? Works to assist in the reot JK! 8 flo °d damage and the funds to at w iii not run to the clearto ex Pense. This position is Th« tv. *° the Coromandel County. Thames County intends to forvery strong protes-; to the ■lnet over what it considers a dis•w 7l ea * h ° f faith, as it has spent ..T 2OO pn the repair of flood to thL♦ Vu a P r in§'. on the understand- '* thi« JA e "ork would be subsidised. A ney is to come out of tho Ael D there will be none left to vi uackblock settlers if further fyock the tracks and, in the We fa 1 r l ' Courtney, "they will just J?« y blocked until either the sSJEJ dig themselves out cr the Tef nment wakes up.”