RAIN IN CANTERBURY
STREAMS AND ROADS FLOODED
[PER press association..]
CHRISTCHURCH, March 18
Minor flooding and dislocation of communications were reported in North Canterbury, to-day, as the result of the first real rainfall the province has had since , last Winter. Three inches and more of rain are reported from the northern districts during the last forty-eight hours. Thte Pahau river was over the main north road, south of Culverden, and the Mason river ford, eight or nine miles north of Waiau, was impassable, and the mail bus from Kaikoura could not make the trip. Schools in the Oxford district were closed to-day, because many pupils were unable to negotiate the flooded streams.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1941, Page 5
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