FLOOD WATERS ON MAIN TRUNK LINE.
FIRST EXPRESS GETS THROUGH ON TIME.
(Per Pieea Association.)
Auckland, Feb. 20.
The first express from Wellington arrived this morning on time, though Hood water hail inundated an extensive area near Hunterville, and at one place the earth about the sleepers svas being svashed assay. The workmen affected temporary repairs, and the heavy train-crept safely through the inundations. Alter the express passed it svas noticed that the rails had sagged about, six inches at the danger spot, but there svas evidence. of the flood water subsiding.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 2
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