STORM AT GISBORNE
Second Flood Within Fortnight
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) GISBORNE. March 24. Gisborne suffered a six-hour blackout during the height of a heavy storm last night, when the 50,000-volt transmission line from Waikaremoana broke from the poles and fell into three leet of swtiinp water. The Poverty Bay Power Board’s standby plant was put into operation, serving the freezing works, hospital, and bakeries, and by 2 a.m. the transmission line had been repaired and the service restored to normal. The storm brought the second flood in a fortnight on the Gisborne flats. The Waipaoa River surged through a gap cut in the stopbanks at Waerengahikii to release a big lagoon formed by the last flood. Tn the early hours water was pouring over (he stopbnnks and refilling the lagoon and at 9 a.m. the roads in the locality wore awash. Warnings scut out earlier in the night had enabled settlers to remove their stock. The area inundated is not. so extensive as.jyas. the case.ji
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 153, 25 March 1944, Page 6
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