PHENOMENAL RAINFALL.
EAST COAST Xl VERS .FLOODED. (Ry Telegraph._.-l*rc-.s Association.) GISBORNE, this day. Phenomenally heavy rains are reported in Waiapu dfstriet. At Puketiti and Waipiro seventeen inches were recorded, and at Tokomaru Bay fourteen inches. At Ahikoura between 5 p.m. on Friday and 0 a.m. on Saturday, nine inches fell. Rivers are in heavy flood. A later message from Ruatorea, Waiapu county, states that 184 inches nf rain have fallen in three days, up to nine o'clock this morning. This is the heaviest rainfall since February, 1917. There are enormous floods in the rivers. The rainfall at Gisborne was two inches in three days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 76, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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104PHENOMENAL RAINFALL. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 76, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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