LAKE OVERFLOWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 10

LAKE OVERFLOWS.

RECORD FLOOD LEVEL

IMPROVEMENT NOTED TO-DAY

FURIOUS TORRENT TO.SEA.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

CABTERTON , , this day.

There is little further to report on the floode. Practically the whole of the northern area is free of water, but the lower valley is still deeply cpvered. Soldier eettlere at the Pahautea settlement eased most of the water, but .the subsidence round this area pute tremendoue volume into the lake, which has risen to a height well above all previous records. It is reported that the lake waters overflowed the bank, but the waters on both sides of the bank were practically on the same level and no damage waa ilonev Most of the settlers in the Kahutara district gathered along the lakeside are watching the waters and report a fall of a few inches since last night. This is taken as an indication that the worst k over. The outlet to the sea is running furiously, but the five or six miles of narrows between the lakes seriouely impede the flow from tie upper lake. The rainfall for the month of August was 8.4 inches. To-day further rain has fallen and the sky is overcast. No further trouble is anticipated.

TRAINS CANCEMJBJX

INTERRUPTION THROUGH FLOODS.

Advice received by the Railway Department in Auckland states that, the interruption near Eketahuna owing to the recent heavy floods will not be clear for the resumption of normal traffic until Friday. Flood waters have made the safety of a railway bridge doubtful, and while goods trains have been run over it, the Department has not allowed the running of passenger trains. People travelling by the 12,13 p.m.. Woodville-Wellington express and by the 7.50 a.m. Wellington-Woodville express will be required to transfer and make their own arrangements for the distance of the few intervening miles in the unsafe territory.

Goods and parcels will be subject to considerable delay.

To-day the 0.45 a.m. mixed train from Woodville to Wellington lias been cancelled between Eketahuna and. Mixsfcerton, as has also the (1.45 p.m. train from Woodville to Masterton between the same two stations.