ANXIETY RELIEVED
FEARS OF FLOOD AT
GISBORNE
(By '.Telegraph—Press- Association.) GISBORNE, June 7.
The drenching and continuous rains of Wednesday and Thursday ceased in the early: hours of this morning and the rivers are now going,.down. ••■•-'
At 7 o'clock this morning the North Main Eoad ' was "impassable.: but an hour later the water had gone '•" down sufficiently for seryiw xars to ( pro» ceed.
■. Settlers: on:: the •. PoveWy flfcts spent an anxious nightr and many removed their stxxjkio higher levels.
-At 3 am? the water in the Waipaoa ftiver ceased to rise and i^ince Uien it has gone down considerab^;-' Fears of a flood are now past.
;' The South Kbad- is blocked by a slip on Devil's Elbow, between Wairoa and. Napier, but vehicles are hoping to get through tonight. "'
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 17
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