HOUSES EVACUATED
IN CHRISTCHURCH SUBURBS CAR IN FLOODED RIVER P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Houses had to be evacuated in low-lying parts of Christchurch today, when the city suffered its worst flooding for very many years. Heavy drizzling rain, driven by a high south-westerly wind, fell almost incessantly throughout the week-end and natural and artificial watercourses proved inadequate to carry off the water.
Christchurch and districts surrounding Banks Peninsula met the full force of the storm. Little River township was invaded by floodwaters from Lake Forsyth and 52 passengers from railway buses were stranded at the Lake Forsyth Hotel. Provisions were eventually - dis patched to them by means of an Army tank transporter. Houses at Little River had to be evacuated.
The southern approach of the Northern Waihao Brid~e, South Canterbury, was washed out and a motor car ran over the end of the bridge into deep water, where it overturned. Fortunately the occupants escaped with nothing worse than a ducking.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 6
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