In New Zealand there were, according to the 1933 figures, 83,285 i miles of roads. Giving these an average width of one chain, there is a catchment area of 666,284 acres and one inch of rain will produce well over 66 million tons of water, or about as much as the Waikato river discharges every quarter of an hour. Several days of heavy rain on the roads of the Dominion would therefore account for water sufficient to give motorists grounds for complaint at the flood damage.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VLI, Issue 3420, 16 December 1935, Page 7
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