FLOOD AT BLENHEIM

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 107, 7 May 1923, Page 8

FLOOD AT BLENHEIM

"COMPLETELY UNDER WATER"'

RIVERS PHENOMENALLY HIG-H.

A telegram received by the Chief Postmaster at 12.50 p.m. to-day from the Postmaster at Blenheim, stated: "Town completely under water, which is rising fast."

A Press Association message received early this mornine from Blenheim stat-/ ed: It has been raining nearly constantly since Saturday evening, and the rivers are running bank-high, and in many places overflowing the banks. Water is coming into the town from the school bend of the'Omaka, where.it threatens to break through. It is still' raining heavily, and there is every prospect of a heavy flood. ( A later message dispatched from Blenheir at 11 a.m. was as follows:— ■

The Wairau River is higher than ever before. Reports from a branch near its 1 source indicate that -.it will rise still higher. The flood has reached LanejfydaleV At-Marlboroucth. town the heaviest rain for twenty-eight years has fallen. Mahakipawa reports. the most serious flood ever, known. The Grove-Mahaki-pawa-Havelock road is under water, and all bridges have been swept away, and trees have been uprooted and chimneys blown down by the terrific gale. Part of Sprinirlands.,. a suburb of Blenheim,- is under water. It is still raining.