FLOODS IN WAIRARAPA.
BIG AREAS INUND ATED. VARIOUS CENTRES ISOLATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CARTERTON, Nov. 1. Serious floods are raging all over the district owing to excessive rains. The Kokotau bridge has been closed to all traffic. Recently driven piles have given way and approaches have been washed out. Many settlers are surrounded and unable to reach towli but there is no danger. Communication with Gladstone, Kokotau, Ponatahi, and Ahiaruhe is completely cut off. Reports from the Lower Valley state the waters overtopped the stopbanks. The whole countryside is inundated to the greatest depth for 20 years. The Tuliitarata Dairy Factory is flooded and unable to work. No serious damage except the Kokotau bridge has yet’beeii reported. Rain is still falling, but not heavily and the water has dropped half an inch since eight o’clock this morning.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 November 1928, Page 9
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