SUN SHINES AGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 98, 28 April 1938, Page 26

SUN SHINES AGAIN.

CONDITIONS IN HASTINGS.

FRUIT STORE FLOODED

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

HASTINGS, Wednesday

While conditions jh Hastings are still far from normal, a vast improvement has taken place since yesterday. Surface water is gradually getting away, and the borough's essential services are being rapidly restored. The rain has ceased and the sun is shining at intervals.

While the main business area of Hastings escaped damage, one establishment, Mr. H. <"». Apsey's fruit cool store in Hastings Street North, fared badly. The lower portion of this two-storeyed building was flooded to a depth of over 18in of water, and thousands of cases of apples and pears are affected. A grading machine, which is urgently required for export purposes, is completely surrounded by nearly ISin of water, on which is floating hundreds of apples. The cooler, in which there are between 3000 and 4000 ca*?s of picked and packed apples ami pears, a gootl portion of them awaiting exportation, is similarly affected. Owing to the rise in the •temperature in the cooler it is considered more than likely that a big portion of the fruit held in storage will be seriously affected.