SLIGHT FLOODING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21631, 15 November 1935, Page 10

SLIGHT FLOODING

$ ; PADDOCKS SWAPPED IN | KANCIORA DISTRICT | WATKIt LATER Sll5SII)i:S I 'J'lit: i:c:i11011 uf tho licav.v nun cnri.v vesterday morning, and the bright. daj , yesterday. stopped wlvf looked lik'.: ' developing into ;i ll< ei in the low- : lying parts uf the Ka?ig:ora district. On Wednesday evening most of the . bigger creek.-, iu the county were running bank-high, unci a number ol ; 'A-uU'r-races had overflowed their | banks into adjoining paddocks. An/a,; of heavy, bogigv, land to flu.' south- ; cast of Ilangiora were covered with : water. and although it. had begun to disappear yesterday afternoon, it will ; be .some days before the land is again ; fit for use by stock. j The most serious instance of flood- j in.s? reposed yesterday was on the : main road to Waikuku from fho main I north road, where the water from J Taranaki creek had Hooded an area of i low-lying dairy land and ha<i 011- j croached across the road lor several > chains to n depth of oiyht inches. How- ; ever, the lloodinu was not. bad enough j to stop the passage: of vehicular traffic. | The Ashley river, which during the' j last few days with the continued rain ; had risen above .normal, reached its j highest level at 4 a.m. yesterday, when : it was 4 feel, (> inches above its . usual depth at the Ashley street trat- t tic bridge. Yesterday afternoon the . level dropped considerably. , In Rau.uioru for (he 24 hours which i ended at !> a.m. yesterday, 1.1 l inches 1 , of lain were registered, which makes ; the lotal fall recorded so far this j month 2.40 inches:. 1