AEROPLANES USED
MAIL FOR GISBORNE
TRAFFIC OUTLETS REOPENING
(P.A.) GISBORNE, this day. Rapid progress is being made in reopening the railway and main road outlets. The road service was resumed yesterday by transhipping passengers over obstructions to cars on the other side. The road is expected to be open to Bay of Plenty to-day, though motorists are advised to exercise caution.
To the south the road should be usable to Wairoa to-morrow. The railway is expected to be available for traffic as far as Wairoa on Saturday, and to Napier on Monday. The first inward mail of a Aveek came by air yesterday, when a small amount of first-class matter was brought. Aeroplanes are expected to be used until the overland outlets are restored.
Gisborne Floods While losses to farmers concern mainly the burying of pastures and crops under deep silt over thousands of acres and the sweeping away of fences, gates and farm bridges, individual Losses in stock are substantial in cases where insufficient warning was given of the approach of the flood. One man lost all but a few of 500 sheep, while another estimates his loss at 250 head.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 6
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