AUCKLAND FLOODS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1938, Page 7

AUCKLAND FLOODS

BOY’S UNUSUAL PASTIME. FISHING FOR EELS OVER LAWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 2. Fishing from his verandah for numerous eels swimming over the flooded front lawn was the unusual pastime of a small boy at Ellerslie today. Nextdoor neighbours have an unwelcome flood visitor in a goose which,; having taken up its residence under the house, keeps them awake at night. These houses are two of four on the Great South Road, where residents have been marooned since Saturday by more than two feet of flood water in front of their homes. To obtain provisions they walk across roughly improvised duckboards in their backyards, cross a rocky blackberry-infest-ed section, climb over a stone wall, and walk along the railway line to the road.

One of the residents, Mr E. A. Booth, who was found putting the finishing touches to a pair of stilts, suggested that the fire brigade should pump the water out of the section. There is still 10 feet of water at the back of his house. All sorts of flotsam and jetsam float around, but the goose annoys him most. Residents complain that the contents from the Ellerslie septic tank deposit a film on the ground as the flood waters subside.