HEAVY RAIN IN CANTERBURY
' By Telegraph—Press, Association. Christchurch, May 29. There lias been very heavy rain since Saturday morning. The fall in Christchurch for 18 hours ended at 9.30 a.m. today was 2.421 inches, • the heaviest re. cordcd for a considerable number of years. , The rainfall to dato for 1918 is 11.371 inches, almost double that of the cornsponding period of 1915, which was 6.3G? mchM. The rain lias not been particularly heavy in the back country, so there have leet no excessive floods of rivers or damage to bridges.- The beneficial result has 1)6611 the effect' on the artesi-m 'supply, e rise of several inches in some wells proving that the subsoil has had a thorough waking. . CREEKS AND EI VERS RISING. Timaru, May 29. Rain'set in on Saturday night, and with' little intermission has continued since. Near Timaru the full amount to 2} ii dies tfl 5 p:ni., twenty miles inland, 2.75, and 2.85 inches. It is reported that the creeks and rivers are rising. The heavy showers continue.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2783, 30 May 1916, Page 6
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