Flood waters receding
KAITANGATA: The flood waters are going down steadily and many stretches of land have reappeared. A most disagreeable odour assails the nostrils when one is in close proximity to areas recently covered by the flood, and as the sun’s rays are directed strongly on these affected parts the stench becomes such that pedestrians find it convenient to ‘‘hustle’’. The banks of the canal continue to crumble away, and the Kaitangata Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative Company’s stock of cheese is being removed to the river steamer
which was brought down from Balclutha for coal supplies. Further damage to a considerable extent has been revealed further up the Clyde terrace road, where for a great distance the top of the road has been scoured and swept out to a depth of about 4ft. The greatest difficulty which confronts the boatmen conveying mails to Stirling is the strength of currents flowing toward the lakes from the new break near the Stirling bridge. Dairy farmers who have been missing the cows that were in milk are now compelled to ease off a little, as the dry cattle are showing too visibly the signs of the pinching. One dairy farmer who milked 60 cows has decided to retain eight or nine of them and place the remainder on the market. He, like his neighbours, will have no grass or turnip crops for winter feed. The river continues its rapid encroachment on the farming lands in the lower InchClutha or Matau district, and a very large part of Mr A.
O. Rutherford’s farm has disappeared and swept away to sea.