THE WEATHER.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 216, 19 September 1911, Page 8

THE WEATHER.

FLOODS IN NELSON

[PKESS ASSOCIATION.} NELSON* Sept. '19. Bad floods bare occurred fit Motueka. The flood waters, are within three inches of the old man flood of 34 years ago. ,"The water broke through the Whiokarewa protective works and ppu'red into the, town, being six inches deep in High Street. M<any bouses in the low-lying parts were inundated, and tlie flood reached its height at 4 a.m. to-day;-but a heavy fall of snow on the ranges saved the situation. > The crops sustained damage, and several sheep were drowned. At Ngatimoto the "pier of the new suspension bridge was thrown out of tho perpendicular. At the Lower Moutjere the approach to the new bridge was washed away, the Nelson coach being got over by taking out the horses.