FLOODS IN OTAGO
Roads Four Feet Under Water
RAILWAYS DISORGANISED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, June 19. After 37 hours’ continuous rain, road access to Dunedin from the south is completely severed by flood water. There is four feet over the. road at Clarksville Junction, near Milton, and the same depth at Otokia. The Roxburgh highway is blocked at Waitahuna, and the Middlomarch highway al West Taieri.
Train sei vices are considerably disorgaised. Express trains to and from Invercargill were delayed for an hour by a wash out at Bcnliar. There was also a big wash-out last night at Port Chalmers, but the line was cleared for this morning’s trains. The Ontram line is under water. All services have been cancelled, while the Otngo Central train was delayed by wash-outs between Salisbury and l|indon. The only city flooding is at South Dunedin.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 157, 19 June 1935, Page 7
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