DAMAGED ROADS

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 14

DAMAGED ROADS

HEAVY OVERNIGHT RAIN j 'W ' I GISBORHE-NAPIER HIGHWAY IMPASSABLE ' ' V ■ ' '*■ '' , [Per United Press Association.] GISBORNE, April 13. The main highway between Gisborne and Napier via Morere is badly, dam-', aged as the result of heavy rains overnight. The culvert near Nuhaka was washed away and small slips on JobTin’s Hill are also: holding up , trafficThe Public Works Department reports that the v road is unlikely to be opened before. three or four. days. The other main route, Gisborne-Wairoa via Tiniroto, has been, out of commission foi; some weeks; owing to; an extensive repair programme. The rainfall at Gisborne for th* twenty-four hours to 9 a.m. was tha heaviest recorded for years, 2.37 inchesThe Public Works Department is despatching ■ all available men from Bartlett’s and Morere to - clear the slips, but it is estimated that it will be three or four days before the work is completed. SHOPS AND HOUSES INUNDATED* Nuhaka reports the worst storm since 1910. The township; suffered severelywater pouring through shops and: houses. The river in one pgrt bhanged its course, eating away some acres of flai land. . Other streams are in high flood, and the main road at Whakaki is under water. f