FLOODS IN OTAGO
j SOUTH OF MOSGIEL. TRAIN HELD UP. ROADS ALSO BLOCKED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, July IS. Although the rainfall at Dunedin has not been more than 11 inches for I the past three days, it has been much heavier inland, and, with snow melting, the Taieri river overran on to the plain yesterday, so that to-day both road and rail traffic south of Mosgiol was completely interrupted. At Allanton this morning there was three feet of water over the rails, while at Otokia a washout affects two chains of rails. The midnight express from Christchurch was unable to get past Dunedin, and this morning’s Inver-cargili-CliriiStcliiireh express is held at Milton. The passengers are unable to complete the journey, even by road.
The Outram branch line is also flooded, with no likelihood of the service being restored for (several days. At Bushoy, on the North Road, floods have closed the road, but the railways are unaffected. Rain has ceased in Dunedin
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 July 1929, Page 9
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