KELSO HIT BY FLOODS
(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 14. The small west Otago township of Kelso was the hardest hit when the Pomahaka River and its tributaries overflowed their banks and flooded hundreds of acres at the week-end.
Residents described it as the worst flood in 40 years in west Otago. Very heavy rain in the upper catchment of the Pomahaka and on the west side of the Blue Mountains resulted in a rapid rise in the river on Saturday morning. Floodwaters spilled over low-lying areas beside the Pomahaka on Saturday, inundating hundreds of acres of farm land, and entering business premises and houses in Kelso.
Although Heriot escaped lightly when the Swift Stream overflowed, one resident, Mr Earl Stevens, will have cause to remember Easter, 1968, for a long time. After surviving the Wahine
disaster, he came home from the North Island to find that his house has had 18 inches of water running through it.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31654, 15 April 1968, Page 1
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