FLOODS IN POVERTY BAY
RAILWAY WASHOUT AND BRIDGE CARRIED AWAY. LAUNCHES SWEPT OUT TO SEA. Press Association.—By Telegraph. GISBORNE, March 24. It has been raining steadily for the past three days and all rivers and creeks in the district are badly swollen. Owing to a washout on the railway to-day's train for the north could not get beyond Otaka, a small country centre, and lady passengers had to be accommodated in the railway camp while the male passengers had to accomodate themselves in the railway cars. A temporary railway bridge across the Waipoa river on the line to Napier which is in course of construction was carried away. The rain continues steadily and at Motu seven inches fell in 24 hours, while in Gisborne over three inches have fallen in two days. The Turanganui river, on which the port is built, is running j high and all vessels have been doublemoored. 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 tonight.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12751, 25 March 1914, Page 5
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