A FINE EASTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 3

A FINE EASTER.

WET ONE IN THE 'SIXTIES. "Beautiful Easter weather," remarked a representative of the "Auckland Star" to an old resident this morning. "Yes," •vras the reply. "Very different to one I remember in the early 'sixtiei, when I was a boy. How jt did rain on Good Friday and continued wet through the Easter holidays. The worst was on Good Friday. In those days we lived in a little cottage about the size of a modern motor garage at the back of Karangahape Road, the section running down to the gully. The rain fell so heavily that the Arch Hill gully was converted into a river, and fences all alom: the backs of the sections were washed away. Not only that, but~ pumpkins were taken and deposited on the flat where the Chinese gardens were afterwards located near Meola Creek at the Western Springs.

The sewers in those days were quite unequal to the task of carrying off the water that fell in such volumes, and I remember that in front of our place a cluck was drowned in the water-table of the road, owing to being turned over and over in the torrent. Our potatoes were all washed out, and for days afterwards we were carrying them up in buckets from the bottom of the section. "Some of the hotels in Queen Street had a rough time. The cellars pot filled with water and empty casks pushed up the floors of the premises."