POWER BLACK-OUT.
GISBORNE’S SECOND STORM. (P.A.) GISBORNE, This Day. Gisborne suffered a power black-out for six hours during the height of a heavy storm last night, when a 50,000volt transmission line from Waikaremoana was broken from its poles and fell in the three feet- of swamp Avater. The Poverty Bay Power Board’s stand-by plant was put into operation to the freezing works, hospital and bakeries, and by 2 a.m. the transmission line had been repaired and the service restored to normal. The second flood in a fortnight on the Gisborne flats occurred last night when the Waipaoa River suiged through the gap cut in the stop-bank at Waerengahika to release the waters from the big lagoon following on the last flood. In the early hours the water poured over the stop-banks, refilling - Jtlie lagoon. At 9 a.m. the roads in the locality were qwasli. Warnings earlier in the night enabled settlers to remove stock, and the area of inundation was not so extensive as that of a fortnight ago.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 140, 24 March 1944, Page 3
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