RAIN CEASES, WATERS RECEDING
RAILWAY SERVICES DISORGANISED EVERYWHERE.
(IT TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day
Rain has ceased in the city and in parts of the country, and the flood waters are receding. All the railway traffic north of Kaiapoi is blocked, but i 6 is hoped to get the afternoon trains to Rangiora. There is a bad wash-out at Sefton, which will block the trains to Waipara for some time. Five washonts have occurred on the Cheviot line, and the Waiau Bridge, near Parnassus station, is badly damaged. The damage done beyond Springfield on the Midland Line is not at present ascertainable, but no traffic is possible to the: Otira tunnel this week. The express is running- to Dunedin under normal conditions.
Considerable damage has been done to stocks of blankets at the Kaiapoi Mill, where the average depth of water throughout the factory was two feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 6
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