RAIN AND STORM
WEST COAST INUNDATION (Per United Press Association.] GREYMOUTH, March 6. Heavy vain is falling on the West Coast. The total so far this week has been ojin, of which 3iin lell in the twenty-four /hours ended at 9 o’clock this morning. The rivers are rising. H.M.S. Dunedin is due in the Greymouth roadstead to-morrow, but there is little prospect of the men being able to land in tho tug owing to the sea on the bar. The auxiliary schooner Piri, carrying explosives from Mebourne to Greymonth, is six days overdue. The agents think she may be sheltering along the coast. WESTPORT, March 6.
Washouts and slips occurred in various parts of the Duller district as the result of the heavy rain yesterday and to-day, A bridge at the Island Creek loop line is in danger of being carried away. Blasting operations were resorted to to remove logs which are threatening the bridge. A big washout occurred on the railway line near Birchfield, compelling the temporary suspension of the railway servie.
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Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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173RAIN AND STORM Evening Star, Issue 20118, 7 March 1929, Page 7
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