PERSISTENT RAIN
MAIN ROADS IMPASSABLE
RIVERS RUN HIGH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL, February 24,
Considerable flooding has occurred throughout the province as a result of two days' light though persistent rain. For 36 hours, from 9 o'clock yesterday morning till 9 o'clock tonight, over an inch and a half of rain has fallen, bringing the total fall for the month to double the average for February. The main Invercargill-Dunedin highway is impassable at McNab and Pukerau, and today motorists had to make a detour through Willowbank and Waikoikoi. The InvercargillKingston road is blocked between Nokomai and Atl?ol, and water is over the road at Mandeville on the GoreLumsden road. It was reported this evening that the flood waters at Athol were receding and that traffic would be able to get through in the morning.
All rivers are running high and it is expected that other roads will be impassable in the-morning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 10
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