HEAVY RAIN AT GISBORNE
MAIN ROAD BRIDGE UNDER WATER
(New Zealand Press Association)
a GISBORNE, Oct. 20. .r ys °a Persistent rain have SE* 8!1 P S and road surface flooding Much to-day cut three main road outlets from Gisborne. is on the 5? s i? 088 * hjghway, three miles north of Tokomaru Bay. where the swollen Mangahainui stream is cutting into ,J 0 .k d ' I t ? ns ™ soil sliding down from the hillside. The sodden state of the ground precluded the use of bulldozers, and Ministry of Vforks gangs w ?re forced to use fascines covered with shale to provide a passage of the washed-out section. The rainfall on the coast has been exceptionally heavy. Te Puia has had 24 inches so far this month, and 85 inches for the first 10 months of the year.
On the Main North road, a low-level RF/dge near Puha was 4ft under water this afternoon, and the Waikohu stream overflowed on to the highway, leaving heavy silt deposits. In Gisborne more than eight inches and a “ . x?f ra^n has fallen in 20 days this month, compared with an average of two inches and a half.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26249, 21 October 1950, Page 6
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