FLOODS AND SLIPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 114, 10 April 1930, Page 7

FLOODS AND SLIPS.

NELSON’S EXPERIENCE. Per Press Association. 1 NELSON, April 9. Last night there was extremely heavy rain in the country on the Motueka side, and as far back as Tapawera, causing floods over the road in Moutere and slips on the railway line near Spooner’s Range. The Nelson-Kawatiri train -which left Nelson this morning at 7.45 o’clock still at Belgrove waiting for the line to be cleared. Large gangs are working on the slip. There are also other smaller slips on the line from the far end of the tunnel to Kohatu. Service cars travelling between Nelson and Motueka returned to their starting places this morning after going to the vicinity of the Jubilee bridge, where there was eight feet of water over the road. Heavy rain fell in this district last night, and has abated a little today. • All the countryside in Lower Moutere is flooded. A number of houses are surrounded, but so far no families have had occasion to leave their homes. Advice has been received that the Belgrove end of the tunnel also has been . completely blocked by a large slip that came down this afternoon. A relief gang train has been sent out to work on the slip, but at present the extent of the slip is not known. No traffic is expected through from the Murchison end to-day.