SLIPS DELAY LIMITED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 156, 17 June 1936, Page 6

SLIPS DELAY LIMITED

Flood Threatening In Manawatu (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., June 17. Two small slips and one large slip which came down north of Mangaweka early this morning caused a delay of over three hours to the southbound Limited express. The train was held at Taihape from 4 till 7 a.m. till the line was clear. A southbound air-liner was delayed at Milson to enable passengers by the Limited to join. ' Following heavy rain in Hawke’s Bay the Manawatu river rose rapidly overnight from the comparatively low winter level of 2 feet to 14 feet 9 inches by eleven o’clock to-day, threatening to inundate all low-lying land in the vicinity of Tiakitahuna and Rangiotu, which area lias suffered extensively in past floods. Settlers this morning began to remove stock. There is still a gap three chains wide in the protective banking at Hamilton’s Bend, a danger spot in the river. With the river continuing to rise it may go across country and make the main Palmerston North-Foxton highway impassable.