FLOODING CAUSES STOCK LOSSES IN HOKITIKA DISTRICT
(P.A.) GREYMOUTH, Feb. 15. Week-end flooding in the Hokitika district proved most disastrous to some farmers’ stock.
Losses were fairly high in the Koi-terangi-Kokatahi disrict and one farmer, Mr. M. Wallace, is reported to have lost 150 sheep which were drowned or carried away by the river, which destroyed a newly-built protection wall near his property and inundated and scoured a wide area of farm land. Water covered some farms to a depth of 4ft. and entered some homesteads. The flooding in the back country was the worst for some years, but though a 12-knot flood was running ,the town was not seriously affected.
There was a good deal of street flooding water entering some buildings, including the Post Office. The river came to within 4ft. of the top of the wharf. It subside dbefore high tide.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22872, 16 February 1949, Page 8
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