HEAVY RAINS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 10

HEAVY RAINS

DAMAGE IX POVERTY BAY. LAUNCHES SWEPT TO SEA. («r miGittPH.— rr.KSs association.) GISBORNE, 24th Mdich. It has been raining steadily for the past three days, and ail the livers and creeks in the district are badly swollen. Owing to a washout on the railway, today's train for the noith could not piogress beyond Otoko, a small country centre, and the lady passengers had to be accommodated in the railway camp, while the men of the party 'had to accommodac themselves in the railway cars. A temporary railway bridge acrossthe Waipoua River on the line to Napier, in course of construction, was carried away. To-night the rain continues steadily, a,nd at Motu seven inches fell in 24 hours, while in Gisborne over three inches have fallen in two days. The Turanganui River, on which the port is built, is running high, and all the vessels have been double-moored. A crisis is expected in the harbour when the tide comes in about midnight. Two launches moored in the harbour were swept out to, sea tp-night.