ABANDONED HOMES
STOCK LOSSES REPORTED
Desolate scenes on Buckley's Flat this morning, according to telephoned information, included flood-lapped houses, with water entering rooms over window-ledges, floating pig-sties, and dead stock washed up against the Jast desperate shelter-places. Men were out in a boat searching for Mr. G. Peers, who lives alone in a hut near the river. Mr. Peers is the only resident of the district for whom fears were entertained this morning. All others had been accounted for. j The homesteads of Mr. L. Burling and Mr. L. Richardson were hopelessly flooded Mr, Richardson had walked round the'river bank to safety, but it is believed that a large percentage of his stock will be lost in the flood. Mr. Collis, of Kairanga, said today that the flood waters in that district were receding fast. Although most farmers had been able to move their stock to higher land, it was feared that many young lambs would have perished. Mr. Collis described the flood as the worst for easily 30 years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 42, 18 August 1939, Page 10
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