DAMAGE BY FLOOD.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 76, 1 April 1910, Page 8

DAMAGE BY FLOOD.

m SERIOUS EFFECTS AT PAEROA HOUSES WASHED AWAY: TOWN PLUNGED IN DARKNESS. MINING COMPANIES SUFFER. WATER NOW RECEDING. [BY TELEGR\Pn — PRESS ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, This D.»y. The latest advices from Paeroa show that the floods weie far-reaching. On Wednesday night the wind blew a huiricane from the east. The river lose to buch an extent that a large part of the residential portion of the district was submerged, and people were flooded out. Ono four-roomed hous-e was washed away, and out houses, trees, and almost anything moveable, were washing about. Dead and cattlo marked thf course of the rhrer, and the farmers have been heavy losers. The tunnel on tho Paeroa-Waihi Tailway is blocked with logs and rocks, and communication beyond Paeroa is completely blocked. Slips occurred all along the railway line, and considerable damage has been, done to the permanent way. At the height of the flood on Wednesday night the fires at the gasworks were extinguished, and the township was plunged into darkness. The Waibi Gold Alining Company is a heavy loser, the damage to its plant and other property running into four figures. The Talisman Company « property has also suffered severely. The iron waterraco and battery have been very badly damaged. RESIDENTS REMOVED ON RAFTS. Waikino was badly flooded, there being seven feet of water m the shops on the mam road. Residents were removed from their dwellings on rafts. The flood water is now receding.