GREYTOWN FLOODED
P.A. MASTERTON, This Day. The heaviest floods for some years were experienced in the Wairarapa over the weekend. Rivers overflowed their banks and flooded much low-lying country, some roads were blocked by slips, and motor traffic was held up north and south of Mastertqn by flood waters. The Waiohine River broke across the road near Greytown and traffic was unable to get through for some hours. Rail services northwards were temporarily interrupted last night. A heavy gale north-east of Masterton caused considerable damage to plantations and outhouses, and some loss of stock was reported. Part of tjpe Greytown borough was flooded for the first time for 60 years.
Residents of Carterton' and people living outside the borough were warned today that extreme care must be used until further notice in the use of their existing water supply as the headworks of the Carterton water supply have been extensively damaged by flood waters.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 8
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