HEAVY RAIN
A VALLEY FLOODED.
IN WHANG-AREI DISTRICT. FARMERS’ SEVERE LOSSES. [BY TELEGRAPH- PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WHANGAREd, May 17.
Sensational reports of flooding came from the Mao gat alu a district. Between three o’clock and daybreak on Monday, rain descended in suoJi a torrential manner as to convince one that a cloudburst had occurred in die vicinity. Very soon a wall of water the highest since the eventful flood of ..917, swept down the valley. To ice bridges and miles of fences were swept away, ni places the water is 26 leet deep Several arc heavy losers, cue have 500 sheep drowned. The total damage is £I2OO. Another lost 32 prime cattle, just ready for the market.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 9
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