DAMAGE TO GRAIN STOCKS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 110, 10 May 1923, Page 4

DAMAGE TO GRAIN STOCKS

jGAS SUPPLY- CUT OFF AT

RANGIORA,

OERISTCHURCH, 9th May. . Some heavy losses have been sustained In the Coldstream district; of. North Canterbury.- -where there is scarcely a,' house that is not surrounded by',-water.;; In some instances houses ars submerged V> a depth of two feet, their occupants, iaving been removed: to safety. With .re-. jjard to losses of produce and live-ptock.: a farmer who had 2000 bushels of grain Stocked five sacks high am theßhed', had the lot surrounded by water., -which caused the sacks to burst. A wellknown grazier between Saltwater creek and the Ashley river had 100 head of cattle washed out to sea, and a Waikuku settler- lost SO pigs. At Flaxton a farmer is the loser of 110 valuable stud ?heep. Considerable damage has been suffered in xesoeot to potato crops in Raddock. 'At CoJdstream 600.sacks are submerged to a depth, of two feet, and in an adioinine ipaddock a largel number id lacks are not visible at a 11... There are; large quantities of -potatoes not vei dug. and ft is considered these will be of no lujse at all now and will rot. - ,! ■Owing to the municipal gas-works being flooded, there was no eas available in the borough of Rangicra last night, consequently those whose premises are not connected with electricity had to fall back on kerosene lamps and candles.