GALE AND RAIN.
' :—-« .' • ' tßy TELEGEirn—PEESS ASSOCIATION.) ' ' Gisborne, April 7. A heavy easterly gale, with a high sea, is raging on the coast. Heavy rain has fallen, 2.89 inches being recorded' for the last 24 hours; and close , on, 4 ,'inches for the last 48 hours.. . (DT TEr/EGEAPII—PHEER ASSOCUTIOK.) HoltitiUa, April 7. Tho stormy weather last week did a good deal of damage in South Westland, tho traffic being interrupted for ten days. Mr. Soddon, M.P.i.who is on a tour of the district delivering post-sessional addresses, was delayed ton days in the Haast district owing to floods and damaged road. The storm was a prolonged one, and in twelve days twenty inches of rain fell at Okuru. Lightning and thunder were almost incessant. Tho telephono line was badly, damaged, and is still interrupted. In tho far South floods destroyed roads, and all the ford crossings were badly damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 167, 8 April 1908, Page 8
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