FLOODED RIVERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16508, 25 March 1914, Page 10

FLOODED RIVERS.

POVERTY BAY'S HEAVY RAINFALL. [Pjer Press Association.] GISBORNE, March 24. It has been raining steadily for the past three days, and all the rivers and creeks in the district aro, badly swollen. Owing to a washout on the railway to-day's train for tho north could not progress beyond Otoko, a small country centre, and the lady passengers had to be accommodated in the railway camp, while the men of the party had to put up in the railway cars. The temporary railway bridge across the Waipoua River, on the lino to Napier, in course of construction, was carried away to-night. The rain continues steadily and at Motu seven inches fell in twenty-four hours, while in Gisborne over three inches has fallen in two days. The Turanganui River, on which the port is built, is running high and all vessels have been double moored. A crisis is expected in the harbour when the tide comes in about midnight. Two launches moored in the harbour were swept out.to sea to-night.