FLOOD DAMAGE
IMPROVING CONDITIONS,
(Per rress A isociation— Copyright)
HASTINGS, April 27
While conditions in Hastings are still far from normal, vast improvements have taken place since yesterday. The surface water is gradually getting away and the borough essential .services are being rapidly restored. The rain has ceased and the sun is shining at intervals. While the main business area of Hastings escaped damage, one establishment, that of H. G. Apseys fruit cool store in Hastings street north, fared badly. The lower portion of this two storeyed building was Hooded to the extent of over eighteen inches of water and thousands of Oases of apples are affected. Grading machines which are urgently required for export purposes are completely surrounded by nearly eighteen inches of water, on which is (floating hundreds ol apples. A cooler, in which there is between 3000 and 4000 cases of purchased and packed apples and pears, a good portion awaiting exportation, re similarly affected, owing to the rise of temperature in the cooler, it. is considered more than likely that a big portion of the Iruit held in stoiage will be seriously affected.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1938, Page 2
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