COUNTRY SUBMERGED

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 5

COUNTRY SUBMERGED

BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION

tl n i ■ ,DI^EDIN, July 12. The flood m the Taieri river was 10ft below the record flood in 1908. Railway thonT;l I,W; h tior V? "et interrupted, tnough the low-lying ground k «,i, merged the rails* at" tlie lowesl pornt vatef- **{? a f iTV le.^ f feet above P the watei. North Taieri is under water in parts and a considerable stretch is injmdated in the Otokia and Henley district&