STREAMS OVERFLOWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 173, 24 July 1928, Page 8

STREAMS OVERFLOWING.

MANY ROADS FLOODED. fEy Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)' THAMES, this day. The rain which started to fall on >aturdav night showed no sign of abating at one o'clock this afternoon. The rainfall in three days amounts to 4.32 inches. Water i= lying on all the low places. The Kirikiri stream is flowing into the country rear Wharepoa. The chief flooding is at Mangataw hiri. <"■ll rhe main Thame.-Auckland highway. ( .1: -i 1 a\ e been drawn through the water by or-e-. Tlie agent of the Auckland Anton.obile Association to-day wired a- follow-: "Motorists emphatically protest against frequent isolation by flor,' writers at Jlangatawhihi: tirge a-sor-iarioti to make strong representations to .-on"rolling bodies to remedv i 111 :ned ia t el v.'' The flooding at Kirikiri. oil the main Thames, paerna highway, is accentuated by high midday tides, which cause the \\ ntcr to bai-k up. Several slips have occurred on the rhame- .-oa-t road, but vehi'-ular traffic can get round bv the beach.

It i, reported that the new road from Tapii to Cnrglen is being badly affected by slips, which are also s PV ere on the l • 1 rtiinandel-Mercury Bay road. Mercury Bay i- completely isolated.