SERIOUS EFFECTS
ABATTOIR CRIPPLED
HUTT ROAD UNDER
WATER
TRAFFIC DISORGANISED
The official measurement of the •rain; -which ended this morning showed a total for 24 hours of just over %\ inches. This was at Kelburn. Elsewhere it was otherwise. JtA. tremendous burst of rain, of which flhe inchage is a. mere matter of guesswork and the period a matter rather of minutes than of hours, fell along fthe high land west of the Hutt Road, land spread its edge over Petone and ►Lower Hutt. Fortunately in the city I the fall was hot heavy and sudden to cause much trouble, though .in some suburban areas there were reminders of the last downpour, much anxiety, and not a little activity with garden tools and brooms. The worst effects of the downpour—one of those to which the district is at intervals—were experienced *at the Gity Abattoir and along the Hutt Road. There was also some flooding in Petone and Lower Hutt, Kvhere rate of natural run-off and the [capacity of storm-water drains were 'badly beaten. The storm cleared off very quick'fly, and by midday the weather wore a ; cheerful and innocent air—as if it had done nothing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 22, 26 January 1940, Page 8
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