HUTT FLOOD

Grey River Argus, 15 June 1931, Page 6

HUTT FLOOD

Road and Bridge Damage

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, June 13. Warm rains on heavy falls of snow I on the ranges caused the Hutt River | to rise last night, with the result that further erosion took place in Taita I Gorge, on the main road to Wairarapa. There is now a bare twelve feet of roadway at the narrowest part between the edge of the water bluff on the landward tivp work, which was goinflbn, is not J badly affected, as the damagwis taking f ( place above it. There is senous V poet, however, of another flood seveWk. ing communication. Ml WELLINGTON, June 14. fl Rain during the past two or throe fl days has been steady in the hills, and fl the Hutt River has again flooded. Jfl Some of the low-lying lands in the ley have been covered with water. • fl Some bridges on the Akatarawa 1 Road have been damaged in the Tajta f Gorge. 4 The scouring o f the river road to fl W’aararapa, which began in thp fl big- flood, has resumed, and the workmen are finding it difficult to keep the way open for traffic. Jk