DISASTER TO FARMERS
BLENHEIM, This Day. Rain storms and melted snow in the high country caused a flooding of the Wairau River and tributaries to such an extent that this morning the river overflowed and breached its banks at Spring Creek and at Tuamarina. Considerable areas of rich farm lands, carjying beautiful crops, have been inundated, with serious disaster to the farming community. It is believed that several spans of the railway bridge between Spring Creek and Tuamarina have been washed away, and a long woode:i bridge above Renwick has been damaged. Traffic communication by road and rail between Blenheim and Picton is completely severed temporarily.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8
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106DISASTER TO FARMERS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8
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