Graphic Pictures of Flood Damage in the Wairarapa.—It is only as the waters recede that the full realisation of the flood destruction in the Wairarapa is becoming apparent. (Left) : Mr. S. Reid, manager of the Elgar Estate, contemplating some of the 100 odd head of drowned cattle on the estate left stranded by receding waters. (Centre) : The gap in the Kahutara stop-bank, which gave way at the height of the flood. Before the break only small quantities of water were overflowing this bank from the Ruamahanga River, which was bank high. (Right): Some of the 1000 odd ewes and lambs caught and drowned by the wall of flood water from the burst stop-bank and left inextricably intermingled with logs and.driftwood along a 250-yard fence. -E. T. Robson photo.

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 293, 6 September 1932, Page 7

Graphic Pictures of Flood Damage in the Wairarapa.—It is only as the waters recede that the full realisation of the flood destruction in the Wairarapa is becoming apparent. (Left) : Mr. S. Reid, manager of the Elgar Estate, contemplating some of the 100 odd head of drowned cattle on the estate left stranded by receding waters. (Centre) : The gap in the Kahutara stop-bank, which gave way at the height of the flood. Before the break only small quantities of water were overflowing this bank from the Ruamahanga River, which was bank high. (Right): Some of the 1000 odd ewes and lambs caught and drowned by the wall of flood water from the burst stop-bank and left inextricably intermingled with logs and.driftwood along a 250-yard fence. -E. T. Robson photo.