CAUGHT AT FORD
FLOCK OF LAMBS SWEPT AWAY P.A. dISBORNE, March 6. Without warning a wall of water several feet high swept down the bed of the Waingake Stream during the storm which raged throughout the district and carried away 200 lambs which were being driven across the ford, which till then had shown little rise. Len. Shanks, son of the owner of the lambs, Mr. H. R. Shanks, had a narrow escape from drowning as he scrambled to save his horse,, which was tethered in the danger area. Phendmenal rain fell in the district today and 1.85 inches was recorded in a two-hour period. Flooding occurred: in the town and the railway is blocked by a slip between Gisborne and Wairoa. _________________
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 7
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