OVER SIX INCHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 39, 15 February 1930, Page 7

OVER SIX INCHES.

PERSISTENT DOWNPOUR. NORTHERN ROADS, FLOODED. LARGE AREAS IMMERSED. RAILWAY TRAFFIC DISLOCATED. Over six inches of rain fell in the 4S hours which ended at 9 o'clock this morning. The rainfall for the month to date is 6.23 inches. The greatest fall in any February was in 1917, when 12.67 inche? was recorded. Aucklanders awakened this morning to hear the patter of raindrops, and overcoats and umbrellas were in great demand throughout the [morning. Towards, noon the sky brightened a "little, and there appeared to be some prospect ol better days ahead. Owing to the flooded state of Eden Park another postponement of the start of the tliird Test game with the English touring team was necessary. A number of oth?r sports fixtures had to be postponed. There are reports of floods in different parts of the province. Children's Harvest. At Waimauku the water was front four to five feet deep across the 'main road in places. Late yesterday afternoon Maori children with two horses towed twelve cars through the Hood, the tariff being five, shillings for each car. Late last night fifteen cars were stuck at Waimauku, and some were abandoned by the occupants. One motorist got a carrier to come through from Ivumeu and tow him out with a rope. This morning one of the service cars managed to get past the flooded locality with the water up to the flooring boards. Traffic is practically stopped on the Waimauku-Helensville road, heavy rain having fallen during the night and again this morning. A motor bus, driven by Mr. Pengelly, picked up a number of passengers near Henderson yesterday afternoon and conveyed them to Helensville, 'though with considerable difficulty. A number of passengers near Henderson yesterday afternoon succeeded in getting through, £o Helen?ville despite the presence of floods on the road. At Rewiti, however, a big car driven into flood water -was stopped near the railway line, where the bank was undermined by floods two years ago, and the vehicle had to be pulled out. There was a big stretch of flood water at Woodhill and Ohirangi, but the most difficult stretch to' be negotiated was at Rewiti. There a number of touring cars had to be pulled out by horses, the water coming up over the animals' knees. Every Hill a Waterfall. Two ladies, jnembers of a party touring the north in a large car, got through to Craigwell House, Parakai. Part of the distance from Maungaturoto was accomplished by train. The ladies found the roads particularly bad in the Mangamuka Gorge, where they said every hill was a waterfall. The train from the north this morning, which arrived at Helensville about 8.30, passed through floods in the vicinity of Hoteo with' water lapping into the carriage doors, s This was the last train to get through.