FLOOD AT TAKAKA.
LARGE AREA UNDER WATER,
Per Press Association,
NELSON, Jan. 25. Takaka on Friday experienced a heavy flood, described as the worst for forty years, tho river overflowing the protection works and flowing over a very wide area, including most of tho town. In some low-lying portions tho water reached tho windows.
Miles of fencing wore swept away and the loss of stock is fairly heavy. It was thought that a youth named 11. Sparrow liacl been drowned, but lie was found marooned on an island in the river. Telegraphic communication was broken, but liak now been restored.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 47, 25 January 1926, Page 8
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