THE WEATHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LIX, Issue 6187, 10 March 1936, Page 2

THE WEATHER.

Phenominal Rain After a spell of three days and a 'very warm sunny day on Saturday rain set in at 9 p.m. 103 points being registered at 9| a.m. on Sunday. Rain fell all Sunday ■accompanied) :by gusts of high wind and yesterday morning ariother.- 208 points had! fallen at 9 a.m.- By 2 ; p.m.. in the afternoon 157 more points had fallen and .by 8 p.m. 70 more points: The ground is so saturated! that the rain runs off and conditions are ripe for serious flooding. The rainfall up to 8 p.m. yesterday was 8.06 inches for March and when to this is ad'ded; 25.45 inches for February and 30 points for January it is realised that 33.81 inches have fallen: in less than 2-h months in' 19361. In Akaroa Borough. Henning's Creek carried the storm water up to last evening. At 1 p.m. when there was a violent storm of rain the water began to trickle into the side channels, 'but the water in the creek subsided later. Slip on L'Aube HSU. A slip came out on L'Aube Hilil just below the French Cemetery. Fear of Slips. The greatest harm the rainstorm can; do is to bring on furtlier slips'. In the.ilast rain Mr F. C. Newton's and Mr Helps' grass seed paddocks were damaged by slips and it was feared last night that more losses would be experienced as the ground! is saturated

SLIPS ON THE MA'l'N 1 AKAROA ROAD,

—«— Mail: Car Blocked. Yesterday afternoon a very large slip over a chain long- and as h'igh as a car came down at Red John's Gully. Later a slip came down, on; the Akaroa Main Road l on: the Akaroa side, of the Hill' Top opposite Churchill's property. The Pigeon Bay road is open and can be used to get to the Hit; Top, hut the 1 Little River Hill : road is blocked at Walker's creek a,s well as Red' John's Guliliy, ; Mail Car Blocked 1 . Both Messrs Ramsay's from Christchurch. and) Mr J. .Read Junior's .Mail) Car to Little River got through yesterday morning, but when they tried to :get through in the afternoon they were blocked. N'o evening papers or evening's mail reached Akaroa test night. Ewe Fair Postponed. O'wing to the severe flooding at Little River no Christchurch cars could] get through yesterday morning and the Ewe Fair had to be postponed. Coleridge Current Off. The, Coleridge current was off at the Akaroa end of the Peninsula from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. yesterday. Telephone Communication,. Telephone communication was disorganised yesterday through the lines being in contact on the Christchurch side and only one line was 1 availably.