ADVENTURES DURING GALE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 6

ADVENTURES DURING GALE

--COST THOUSANDS OF POUNDS t V..". .... TO REPAIPv.

(BY TFLECRArH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION \ •n TAUMARUNUI, 24th May. Jho railway ]me south of Taum-irn--nui is still blocked by a J ilrE o sli.>n <1 -, subsidence, MW Piriaka, nfY 'resull at the gale 01 wind and rain which occured ; -iJiirmg th o past two days, and is not - expected to be cleared before Mm afternoon. The express from the north ar- „. rived at Tanmarumii about 5 o'clock tins afternoon, and tho passengers tmn- • shipped at Piriaka, walking round the slip.

'i'he flood damage in «nd around Taii- - marahui is serious.- Several feet of liver bank has been scoured out by tho iWangariui Eiver on the Taumarunui- . uVlatapunu road. A t one point the river -"hast eaten. ..right, into, the road and broken port of the bitumen surface. The favourite walk around the river bank, .- Jtnow-n as the Esplanade, has been com- „.., Jiletely..washed away. 'I-icsideiils of the iiafc'land suffered from' water in their ■ houses, and one man had over forty {est .of. property eaten away, including !'"'K.rb Ivi' of'willow trees. ' ."\Va tjir Lwo ■ feet deep ir- in a houes on Winter's Island, occupied by Mrs.

P. Langstoue, who vacated the building and waded waist-deep through the water in the dark to the dairy, where she lit a fire and stayed until 11.30 last night By that time the water had subsided a good deal, and she returned to the house.

. Slips occurred on all the roads leading to town, and in the outlying areas, and the damage will take thousands of pounds to repair.