FLOODS INUNDATE TOWN AND DISTRICT AROUND TE AROHA
EXPRESS TRAINS PROM AUCKLAND ABB HELD UP NINE INCHES OP BAIN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOTTEfI, Per Press Association, , - HAMILTON,, Last Night. Te Aroha reports tho heaviest flood since 1914. The, local shipping office, a timber yard and hide stores are under water and also some residences. Part of tho bridge on tho Gordon Road has been washed away. The rainfall was 5.5 inches for 24 hours to 9 a.m., making 9 inches in 48 hours. . It is still raining heavily. Tho Waihou River is. rising rapidly. The road to Paeroa is impassable. The express from Tauranga was held up at Tirohia by flooding of tho line between there and To Aroha. The Waihou River is now in heavy flood. Parts ,of• To Aroha town and district are inundated. A washout on tho railway between Paeroa and To Aiyiha prevented the expresses from Tauranga and from Auckland, Thamosward, passing. •/
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 6
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155FLOODS INUNDATE TOWN AND DISTRICT AROUND TE AROHA Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6670, 25 July 1928, Page 6
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